Description of the attraction
Monument to the Dead and Mortured in the East - a monument located on Muronovskaya Street in Warsaw.
The monument was created by Polish sculptor Maximilian Biskupski, a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. The monument to those killed and tortured in the East was opened on September 17, 1995, on the 56th anniversary of the Soviet Union's aggression against Poland. The monument was created in memory of the Poles killed in labor camps in Siberia, as well as the victims of Katyn, who died in 1940 during mass executions. According to archival data, on March 5, 1940, 21,857 Polish citizens were shot.
The monument, almost seven meters high, depicts a railway carriage without walls, in which a large number of crosses are installed. Each tie is marked with the names of the settlements where the labor camps were located or where the massacres of Polish citizens were committed.
The Federation of Katyn Families took care of the monument. In 1999, at the monument, he performed the prayer of blessed. John Paul II during his visit to Warsaw. In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI visited it during his pilgrimage trip to Poland.
