Monuments of Memory

The stops, in walking order

1. 1

   

   Stop 1: chaczkar

   ~3 min here

   Here is the chaczkar: an Armenian stone memorial set in the small square by Janickiego Street, unveiled on the twenty-first of September, twenty twelve.

2. 2

   

   Stop 2: Pomnik ku czci Polaków walczących o niepodległość

   ~3 min here

   Two acts of remembrance meet here: the Constitution of 3 May and the two-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Racławice.

3. 3

   

   Stop 3: plac Polski

   ~3 min here

   Plac Polski takes the form of a short street beside a planted square, where the Old Town Promenade reaches Wrocław’s New Town district.

4. 4

   

   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. 5

   

   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. 6

   

   Stop 6: 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.

7. 7

   

   Stop 7: Zesłańcom Sybiru

   ~3 min here

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

8. 8

   

   Stop 8: Powodzianka

   ~3 min here

   Books are the burden carried by the woman before you.

9. 9

   

   Stop 9: Plac Legionów

   ~3 min here

   Names can carry a whole political idea in just a few words.

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