The Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery (Polish: Cmentarz Powstańców Warszawy) is located at 174/176 Wolska Street in the Wola district of Warsaw. It was established in 1945 and occupies 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres).
Monument to The Fallen Unconquerable in Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery
It is the largest burial site of victims of the Warsaw Uprising, which broke out on 1 August 1944 and lasted until 2 October 1944. Approximately 104,000 people (mainly persons unknown) are buried in the cemetery, mostly in collective graves. Its centrepiece is the monument to The Fallen Unconquerable (Polish: Polegli - Niepokonani), created by Professor Kazimierz Zemła, under which the ashes of 50,000 victims of the uprising are buried. The monument was unveiled in 1973.
Approximately 10,000 Polish resistance fighters and 200,000 civilians were killed during the 63 days of the Warsaw Uprising. Thousands of victims were buried in makeshift graves all over Warsaw and thousands more were never identified or given any sort of burial. The huge task of exhuming and re-burying the dead began in 1945. The first transfers of human remains to the newly created Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery began in November of that year and the remains of victims from all over the capital continued to be buried there for the next two years.
Other victims of World War II are also buried within the cemetery, including defenders of Warsaw during its siege by the Germans in September 1939 and Warsaw inhabitants murdered during the German occupation. Most of these are also persons unknown. Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery is adjacent to the Wola Cemetery (Polish: Cmentarz Wolski).
and 19 Related for: Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery information
The WarsawInsurgentsCemetery (Polish: Cmentarz Powstańców Warszawy) is located at 174/176 Wolska Street in the Wola district of Warsaw. It was established...
in Częstochowa. Warsaw Uprising Home Army Polish resistance movement in World War II Warsaw Uprising Museum WarsawInsurgentsCemetery Cultural representations...
recreated. Several tons of human ashes were relocated to the WarsawInsurgentsCemetery. Museum visitors must be at least 14 years old. Aleja Jana Chrystiana...
massacre Robinson Crusoes of WarsawWarsawInsurgentsCemeteryWarsaw Uprising Museum Warsaw Uprising Monument Little Insurgent Monument Monument to Victims...
district) Warsaw InsurgentsCemetery (Wola) Soviet Military Cemetery, Warsaw Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw (one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the world)...
the Warsaw Uprising Museum Warsaw Uprising Home Army Polish resistance movement in World War II Warsaw Uprising Museum WarsawInsurgentsCemetery Cultural...
Borkiewicz's work, the Warsaw Uprising. Outline of military activities 1944. She was buried at the WarsawInsurgentsCemetery. Daughter of Stanisław and...
Group in Budy Zosine, ordering the transfer of the remains to the WarsawInsurgentsCemetery. Despite the unfavorable political conditions, the veteran community...
a Polish soldier, insurgent, bookseller, and footballer. From 1914 to 1925 he was an active player and captain of the Polonia Warsaw team; later he worked...
The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie; German: Warschauer Aufstand), shortly after the war also known as the August Uprising (Polish: powstanie...
The Warsaw Ghetto (German: Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; Polish: getto warszawskie)...
and continued until the last insurgents were captured by the Russian forces in 1864. It was the longest-lasting insurgency in partitioned Poland. The conflict...
the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw. After that was built the «Polish mausoleum» (Lwów Eaglets Memorial). After World War II the cemetery of Lwów Eaglets was completely...
identified as actual or potential insurgents and taking civilian hostages to be used as human shields when assaulting insurgent positions. Testimonies of the...
Powązki Cemetery, among other Polish sportsmen killed in World War II. After the war a collection of photos documenting the Uprising was found in Warsaw, well...
battle flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a popular symbol among Euromaidan protesters, and the wartime insurgents have acted as a large inspiration...
Wyborcza (in Polish). Warsaw. Archived from the original on 2009-11-29. Retrieved 2010-10-24. "January Uprising Commanders, insurgents' ceremonial burial...
Global Information
