Muzeum Militariów
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Ready-made walk · Wrocław

Wrocław: War and Remembrance

7 stops · ~2 hr 35 min · 5.8 km

war

Trace Wrocław’s wartime history through military collections, memorials, cemeteries, and places of political violence. The walk connects the city’s memories of the Second World War, the Holocaust, post-war displacement, resistance, and international struggles for freedom.

The stops, in walking order

  1. Muzeum Militariów
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    Stop 1: Muzeum Militariów

    ~1 hr here

    Muzeum Militariów fills two wings of Wrocław’s medieval Municipal Arsenal, with its displays spread through three floors.

  2. Pomnik Pamięci Ofiar Nocy Kryształowej
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    Stop 2: Pomnik Pamięci Ofiar Nocy Kryształowej

    ~3 min here

    Before you is the Memorial to the Victims of Kristallnacht: a monument shaped as a three-part granite Jewish gravestone.

  3. Pomnik Rozstrzelanych Zakładników z Nowego Sącza
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    Stop 3: Pomnik Rozstrzelanych Zakładników z Nowego Sącza

    ~3 min here

    These four concrete forms beside Aleja Juliusza Słowackiego are the Monument to the Executed Hostages from Nowy Sącz.

  4. Pomnik ofiar UPA
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    Stop 4: Pomnik ofiar UPA

    ~3 min here

    Two pylons frame a stylized crucified Christ: this is Pomnik ofiar UPA, a memorial built for Polish citizens murdered in the south-eastern borderlands between 1939 and 1947 by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

  5. Pomnik Bohaterów Powstania Węgierskiego
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    Stop 5: Pomnik Bohaterów Powstania Węgierskiego

    ~3 min here

    This is the Monument to the Heroes of the Hungarian Uprising, a memorial to those who took part in Hungary’s 1956 revolt.

  6. Zesłańcom Sybiru
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    Stop 6: Zesłańcom Sybiru

    ~3 min here

    The twelve-metre Memorial to Siberian Deportees rises here on Skwer Sybiraków, beside plac Strzelecki.

  7. W hołdzie patriotom różnych narodowości straconych w latach 1939-1945
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    Stop 7: W hołdzie patriotom różnych narodowości straconych w latach 1939-1945

    ~3 min here

    The fractured concrete obelisk ahead is the memorial titled W hołdzie patriotom różnych narodowości straconych w latach 1939-1945, created for people killed by the Nazis in a prison nearby.

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