Artist: Jerzy Stocki
Date: 1986
Size: 82 x 38 cm
Museum: The Polish Museum in Rapperswil (Rapperswil, Switzerland)
Technique: Bas-Relief
A rectangular commemorative plaque depicting the Pieta in a standing pose. Made of wood covered with embossed sheet metal. It is cast and chiselled. The crosses in the background bear an inscription: UZBEKISTAN/KOLYMA/ARKHANGELSK/SIBERIA/KITABA and below: IF I EVER FORGET THEM, YOU, GOD FORGET ME/ IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO REMAINED IN THE INHUMAN LAND. There is also a signature of J. Stocki. Above, there is a separate plaque with the Polish Eagle and an inscription in English: IN MEMORY OF ALL POLISH MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN/ DEPORTED AND STARVED TO DEATH ON RUSSIAN SOIL /DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR TWO 1990. A bas-relief created by Jerzy Stocki in 1986 in memory of the hundreds of thousands of women and children who died in Russia and remote areas of Siberia (1939-1953). It is on display in the Chapel of Father Maximilian Kolbe in the powder tower.
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