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Execution
Gate
of the
Citadel
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Poland was subjugated by a number of nations whose leaders kept Warsaw in check by a variety of violent means. One such example is the Execution Gate of the Citadel (Brama Stracen) built by the Russian tsar in the 19th century.
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Sites
of Public
Execution
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WWII left its mark on Warsaw in more ways than one: sights of public execution are today signified by stones bearing witness to the blood which then ran in the streets.
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Warsaw's most infamous attempt to resist Nazi occupation is tellingly memorialized with the Warsaw Uprising monument at Krasinskich Square designed by W. Kucma and J. Budyn and unveiled in 1989.
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Little
Insurgents
Monument
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Even the children of Warsaw joined the resistance, noted in the 1944 Little Insurgent Monument on Podwale St.
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Monument
of the
Ghetto
Heroes
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A second, earlier and also unsuccessful uprising against the Nazis is marked by the Monument of the Ghetto Heroes which commemorates the month-long attempt by the Varsovian Jews to prevent liquidation.
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Monument
of the
Killed and
Murdered
in the East
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Poles not only died in Warsaw, but were also deported to the East. This fact is commemorated by the aptly-named Monument of the Killed and Murdered in the East.
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