Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery, Military cemetery in Wola district, Poland
The cemetery occupies a large area along Wolska Street and holds roughly 104,000 graves of people who died during the 1944 uprising. The grounds are marked with headstones and monuments throughout and are maintained by the city as a memorial site.
The 1944 uprising resulted in massive loss of life and many were initially buried in hastily prepared grave sites around the city. After the war, these remains were transferred to this cemetery in the years following 1945.
The central monument carries inscriptions honoring the resistance and was created by a noted sculptor. Visitors can read names and memorial plaques that reflect how the city remembers this period.
The grounds are easy to walk through with broad paths between grave sites. The city offers information about search options for named individuals, which can help with finding specific locations on-site.
A large mass grave section within the cemetery holds thousands of remains of Jewish individuals relocated from another burial site during the postwar period. This detail shows how different groups of victims were eventually brought together.
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