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12-APR-2010

Anonymous Pedestrian Sculpture

THE ANONYMOUS PEDESTRIANS STATUE is at the corner of Pilsudskiego and Swidnicka streets and not far from the railway station. It is a life-size bronze statue of 14 people descending into the earth.

It commemorates the introduction of martial law and in particular the many people who disappeared in the middle of the night on 13 december 1981. Especially poignant is a mother with a pram and a man only visible from the waist.

(more about this martial law can be found here; http://www.videofact.com/english/martial-_law.htm )

The official name of the statue is 'Transition'. It was designed by Jerzy Kalina and erected in December 2005.

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