Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery
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The Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery (in Polish: Cmentarz Powstańców Warszawy) is located in Wolska 174/176 street in the Wola district of Warsaw. It was established in 1946 and it occupies 1.5 ha.
In this cemetery there are buried ca 104 thousand victims of World War II killed and murdered in Warsaw, including: defenders of Warsaw in its siege by Germans in September 1939, Warsaw inhabitants murdered during the German occupation, insurgents of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Most of those persons are unknown.
On a square by the cemetery it is placed a monument of The Fallen Unconquerable (Pol.: Polegli Niepokonani) created by professor Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła. The monument was erected in 1973.
Next to that cemetery it is located the Wola Cemetery (Polish: Cmentarz Wolski) in Warsaw.
[edit] Gallery
 Graves of civilian population |
 Grave of Jews executed in the "Skra" Stadium |
 Monument in honour of the fallen |
 Grave of general Mikołaj Prus-Więckowski and his family killed during the Warsaw Uprising |
[edit] See also
Warsaw Uprising
Wola massacre
Ochota massacre
Planned destruction of Warsaw
German occupation of Poland
