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Name:
Monument to the Victims of the Katyn Massacre
Autor:
Tadeusz Tchórzewski
 
 
 
 


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Monument to the Victims of the Katyn Massacre

The monument consists of two oblong granite blocks symbolizing mass graves of Polish officers and policemen murdered by NKVD in 1940.

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On the highest pedestal there is a figure of the Angel of Death. In front of it, between symbolic graves, there is a figure of Katyń Pieta - the Matron of the Homeland despairing over a body of a murdered prisoner of war. On the granite walls of the graves, the names of the prisoner-of-war camps are inscribed: Kozelsk, Ostashkov, Starobelsk (south), and places of mass murders: Katyń, Mednoye, Kharkiv (north). The author of the monument is Tadeusz Tchórzewski, a sculptor and medalist from Warsaw.
The monument was ceremonially unveiled on 22nd of October, 2000.

Information cited from www.panoramaraclawicka.pl


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