On Sunday, 2 October, a Memorial Chamber was officially opened at the Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery in the Wola district of the Polish capital. The new construction was built to commemorate the memory of 60,000 Varsovians murdered by the Germans in 1944.
The opening was made by Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, chairman of the Social Committee for the Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery, together with the Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski, the German ambassador Thomas Bagger, and the chairman of the Warsaw Council, Ewa Malinowska-Grupińska.
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The Memorial Chamber is a spacious stone building resembling a bunker. It’s divided into several rooms. It includes a Hall of Testimonies with a temporary exhibition entitled „The Death of the City”.
The latter consists of a bird’s-eye view of the left-bank Warsaw, where the places of execution and temporary graves of civilians and insurgents, certified in historical sources, are marked.
The site includes the Remembrance Wall, which is an epitaph for all the victims of the Warsaw Uprising. It displays over 60,000 brass plates engraved with the names, surnames, and ages of the fallen civilians and insurgents.
Empty spaces can be spotted between the plates that are to be filled in the future. For now, the blanks are dedicated to unidentified victims.
Image: British Poles
Author: Sébastien Meuwissen
