– Caring for the memory and passing it on to our children, let us do everything so that each next generation of Polish and Polish women, women from Warsaw and Warsaw will not have to experience the fate of Warsaw residents in 1944 – said the Mayor of Warsaw during the ceremony of planting a tree in the Warsaw Uprising Park. Under his roots, the foundation act of the memorial chamber, which is to be built in this place in honor of the civilian population of Warsaw and the victims of the Wola Massacre, was dug in.
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Apart from the President of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, the ceremony was attended by Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, participant of the uprising, Tomasz Grodzki, Senate Marshal, Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm, Konstanty Radziwiłł, Masovian Voivode and Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, as well as Warsaw insurgents.
“These are the images that stay in us and build determination”
The Mayor of Warsaw dedicated his speech to the memory of the events of 1944. – Anyone who grew up in the cult of the uprising remembers certain childhood images or those that were passed down from generation to generation. The first pictures that I remember (come – ed.) From my childhood in the 1970s, when many traces of the uprising were visible in Warsaw. For me, the most shocking situation was when I was standing over the grave of my uncle, who died in one of the first skirmishes, at 4.40 pm, before the uprising broke out, and I realized that I am also 21 years old. This is what my uncle had when he died – said Trzaskowski. He mentioned parents who “blessed their children” and then experienced their death or slavery. – As parents, we wonder how we would behave today if they went to the uprising – he added.
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– This painting, when my grandfather had to wait for the exhumation of the body, and then dragged his son and his friend to the cemetery on the door across Warsaw, will always be with me. These are the images that stay with us and build determination to never forget the uprising and learn from it, said Rafał Trzaskowski.