Warsaw Uprising Memorial (Hamburg)

The Warsaw Uprising Memorial in memory of the deportees of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising stands in the park of the memorial to the victims of the Neuengamme Nazi concentration camp at Hamburg.

Hamburg, Memorial of Neuengamme concentration camp: memorial area, memorial stone for the victims of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising Memorial
Warsaw Uprising Memorial in Hamburg
ArtistJan de Weryha-Wysoczański
Year1999 (1999)
MediumGranite sculpture
SubjectWarsaw Uprising
LocationHamburg
Coordinates53°26′7.55″N 10°14′2.13″E

It was unveiled on 1 September 1999 among others by Hamburg culture senator Christina Weiss and in the presence of novelist Andrzej Szczypiorski.[1][2] On a polished surface made up of 36 elements, two of which with German and Polish texts on opposite sides, and to be walked on, are positioned in three rows 30 rough-hewn granite blocks. A gravel path is leading to the front side of the sculpture with which it forms a small valley.[3] The stone used is exclusively Polish Strzegom granite. The memorial is dedicated to the 6000 Poles deported from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising to the Nazi concentration camp in Neuengamme and was initiated by the Polish community in Hamburg commemorating at the same time the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Polish sculptor Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański created the monument pro bono.[4][2][5][6]

References
  1. Interview with Andrzej Szczypiorski, "O pomniku upamiętniającym deportowanych z Powstania Warszawskiego w 1944 r.", Deutsche Welle SFB, 6 December 1999.
  2. "Szczypiorski: Nachdenken über die deutschen Sünden", Die Welt, 2 September 1999.
  3. Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 46, ISBN 978-1785891618, OCLC 956765261.
  4. Photos: Memorial Art at Neuengamme Camp, A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust.
  5. Karin Flothmann, Friede, deutsch und polnisch – 6000 Menschen wurden nach dem Warschauer Aufstand ins KZ Neuengamme deportiert. Nun soll ein Mahnmal an sie erinnern, Taz Hamburg, No. 5821, 21. Jahrgang, 27 April 1999, p. 21.
  6. "Erinnerung an polnische KZ-Häftlinge – Neues Mahnmal in Neuengamme geplant", Hamburger Abendblatt, No. 97, 27 April 1999, p. 13.
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