Memorials in Poland

A symbolic cemetery in a suburban square marks the birthplace of Poland's WWII resistance movement.

These plaques found across Warsaw commemorate the sites where executions or battles took place during the German occupation.

Down this Cracovian street resides a plaque with a stark message about the city's air pollution.

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

A stone in Wolin, Poland, marks the possible location of a legendary Viking fortress.

Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.