Pawiak Elm monumenent, Bronze monument at Museum of Pawiak Prison, Warsaw, Poland.

The Pawiak Elm monument is a 1:1 bronze cast of a wych elm that grew by the prison gate from the early 20th century until it was felled in November 2004. The 4.5-tonne sculpture, made from 74 moulded fragments, stands on a concrete foundation in the courtyard of the Pawiak Prison Museum, on the exact spot of the original tree. Its surface reproduces cracks, knots, nail holes and insect traces.

The elm grew by the Pawiak prison gate from the early 20th century. During the German occupation, the prison held about 100,000 Poles, over 37,000 of whom died. The tree survived the 1944 demolition of the prison and from 1945 families attached obituaries and search notices to its trunk. It died of Dutch elm disease in 1984 and was felled on 24–25 November 2004.

From 1945, families pinned obituaries and notices seeking missing persons to the elm's trunk, and over time the whole trunk was covered with plaques. The tree became one of Warsaw's symbols of national martyrdom. Today 140 restored plaques surround the bronze trunk, and the museum's permanent exhibition in the former cinema hall shows archival photographs of the elm and preserved sections of its branches.

The monument sits directly in front of the museum entrance and is easily accessible from all sides. Visitors can walk around it freely and examine the bronze details from different angles at any time.

The bronze sculpture preserves not only the tree's shape but also messages, photographs, and memorial plaques that visitors attached over the decades. These personal marks were captured in the casting process and remain visible as part of the artwork today.