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79 Grzybowska Street. On the fence of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, at the site of Przyokopowa street there is a plaque that reads as follows:
On August 1, 1944 at the area of the Tram Electric Power Station two groups of the Home Army "Kedyw" soldiers won a fight with the German military police and Wehrmacht divisions.
On August 6 the civilian staff of the Power Station were executed by German execution platoons.
Paying tribute to the heroes of the Warsaw Uprising - the staff of the Warsaw Uprising Museum.
Warsaw, August 1, 2005
On the wall of the box office building there is a plaque dedicated to General Tadeusz Komorowski a.k.a. "Bór", the Home Army commander.
In the Freedom Park by the Museum fence from the side of the Okopowa street there stands the 156-meter-long Memory Wall unveiled in the year 2004. On the rows of grey granite slabs the names of c. 12 thousand of fallen Warsaw Insurgents were imprinted. In the middle of the Wall there hangs a bell called "Monter" that weights 230 kilograms and is dedicated to General Antoni Chru¶ciel - the Warsaw Uprising commander.
Nearby the Wall one can see the replica of the combat wagon called "Kubu¶".
On the area of the Freedom Park there are numerous memorials:
- the monument in honour of the fallen, murdered and exiled citizens of Warsaw, soldiers and civilian workers of the Polish Underground State in Warsaw,
- the monument in honour of soldiers of sanitary service that fell in Warsaw,
- the monument in honour of the allied aviators who used to help the Uprising Warsaw,
- the monument In Memory of Filmmakers, the Members of the Propaganda Section of the Home Army Headquarters and the producers of newsreels of the Warsaw Uprising entitled "Warsaw Fights",
- the monument commemorating women who sacrificed their lives during the World War II while fighting for freedom and independence of Poland,
- the monument dedicated to Georgian people, the officers of the Polish Army who sacrificed their lives for Poland in the year 1939, in Katyń, in the Warsaw Uprising and other WW II war fields.
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