The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Polish: Grób Nieznanego Żołnierza) monument in Warsaw, Poland
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Polish: Grób Nieznanego Zolnierza) is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, dedicated to the unknown soldiers who have given their lives for Poland. It is one of many such national tombs of unknowns that were erected after World War I. In 1923, a group of unknown Varsovians placed, before Warsaw's Saxon Palace and the adjacent Saxon Garden, a stone tablet commemorating all the unknown Polish soldiers who had fallen in World War I and the subsequent Polish-Soviet War. This initiative was taken up by several Warsaw newspapers and by General Wladyslaw Sikorski. On April 4, 1925, the Polish Ministry of War selected a battlefield from which the ashes of an unknown soldier would be brought to Warsaw. On November 2, 1925, the coffin was brought to Warsaw. The coffin was buried along with 14 urns containing soil from as many battlegrounds, a Virtuti Militari medal, and an erection act. At this time the architect Stanislaw Ostrowski produced a design to be located under the arcades of the Saxon Palace in Warsaw, then the seat of the Polish Ministry of War. The triple arch of the Tomb is the only remnant of the Saxon Palace colonnade. Since then, except under German occupation in World War II, an honor guard has continuously been held before the tomb, which has a change of guards every hour.
Size: 2571px × 3841px
Location: Saxon Gardens/park, Warsaw, Poland
Photo credit: © Swell Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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