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Wolska street on the corner of Sowiński street - Wola district

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Wolska street on the corner of Sowiński street. The Memory Hall by the Cemetery of the Warsaw Insurgents in Wola district.

This is believed to be a symbolic place in memory of the victims of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
The complex is a concrete monolithic block with a cut flat roof that makes an impression of hanging in the air.
The complex of the Memory Hall as a place commemorating the victims of the Warsaw Uprising consists of two exhibition halls made of strict concrete, linked with the Memory Wall on which one can find 93 thousand and 240 brass plaques with the names of 62 thousand identified persons. One third of all the plaques is empty. There is place for other names to be written progressively. Everyone is welcomed to engage in the process of identification the victims and completing the empty plaques with new-discovered names.
Visitors can enter the Memory Hall from three directions: the Cemetery, the Park and Wolska street, where the smaller exhibition room with a bookstore, a café and information desk is situated.
In the main building of the Memory Hall there is a double area: the Room of History and the Room of Testimonies. The Room of History has a main aim which is to present the fate of the Cemetery of the Warsaw Insurgents, the biggest war necropolis in Poland, and the complicated ways of its commemorating throughout the last decades. In the Room of Testimonies visitors will be able to see in the future multimedia exhibition by Krzysztof Wodiczko, a worldwide known visual arts author.
Presently, in the Room of Testimonies visitors can see a temporary exhibition called "Death of the City" with a map of the left-bank Warsaw, the bird's eye imagery, which indicates with red pins the places where the Warsaw inhabitants were executed and both civilians and insurgent were temporarily buried. In Wola district there are so many red pins that one can see a huge red spot.
The Memory Hall is going to be the place of saving the victims of the Warsaw Uprising from being forgotten as well as the place of debates over various conflicts and the ability of holding dialogues. Last but not least, it is believed to be the place of commemoration and living memory.



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edited by: Maciej Janaszek-Seydlitz
pictures taken by: Maciej Janaszek-Seydlitz
translated by Monika Ałasa


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