This monument is dedicated to one of the most tragic pages in the history of Poland – the deportation of Poles to Siberian labor camps and the mass executions in Katyn. The author of the monument is Maximilian Biskulski.
He created it in the form of an open railway car on rails, containing several dozen grave crosses. Each of them bears the names of the cities and villages where executions took place or labor camps were set up. The total height of the monument is almost seven meters; it is located on Muranowska Street in Warsaw.
The monument was unveiled in 1995, when the 56th anniversary of the Soviet Union's attack was being celebrated in Poland. Yes, such a date is celebrated here as well. However, in fairness, it should be noted that in Warsaw there are quite a few monuments to those who died at the hands of the German occupiers.
In particular, there is the Little Insurgent Monument, the memorial to the participants of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, the monument to the hero-defenders, and there is also an elm hung with plaques bearing the names of the dead. More precisely, its bronze copy, which is installed on the grounds of the now non-existent prison called Pawiak. Here the Nazis held their prisoners and carried out death sentences.
