Monument to the Victims of Stalinism in Katowice

A monument in the municipal cemetery at Panewnicka 45, in the Ligota-Panewniki district. It commemorates people murdered and secretly buried in the Stalinist period in Upper Silesia.

Whom it commemorates

The monument is dedicated to soldiers and activists of the independence underground of 1945-1956: members of the Conspiratorial Polish Army, the National Armed Forces and the Freedom and Independence organisation, as well as political prisoners of the Stalinist period who were murdered and buried in secret.

Form

The authors of the design are Andrzej Grzybowski and Alina Borowczak-Grzybowska. The stone monument consists of three elements set along a cemetery path, near the ossuary in plot 20.

Practical information

• Address: the municipal cemetery, Panewnicka 45, Katowice.
• The monument is in an active cemetery, and the rules of conduct appropriate to the place apply.
• Nearby stands the basilica in Panewniki.