Katyń Memorial (Jersey City)
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The Katyń Memorial is a bronze statue created by Polish-American sculptor Andrzej Pitynski in dedication to the victims of Stalin's March 5 1940 Katyn massacre in which thousands of Polish Army officers and intellectual leaders who had been interned at Kozielsk or imprisoned at Ostashkov and Starobielsk had been killed by the occupying Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, or NKVD. The memorial stands at Exchange Place in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, near the mouth of the Hudson River. Unveiled in June 1991,[1] the statue depicts a bound and gagged Polish soldier with a bayoneted rifle impaled through his back. The statue stands 34-foot-tall (10-meter) and is atop a granite base containing Katyn soil. Its base also depicts a Polish woman carrying her starving child in memorial to the Polish citizens deported to Siberia that began shortly before the massacre.
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![]() Katyń Memorial in Jersey City | |
Artist | Andrzej Pitynski |
Year | 1991 (1991) |
Medium | Bronze sculpture |
Subject | Katyn massacre |
Dimensions | 10 m (34 ft) |
Location | Jersey City, New Jersey |
Coordinates | 40°42′58″N 74°01′59″W |