PGE Foundation will revitalize the Martyrs' Square of Warsaw Wola

The PGE Foundation made a donation to revitalize the space at Plac Męczenników Warszawskiej Woli (eng. the Martyrs' Square of Warsaw Wola). The funds will be used to carry out comprehensive revitalization works, which will make it possible to worthily commemorate the site of the victims of the Wola Massacre carried out by German troops in the first days of the Warsaw Uprising.

The cross and numerous commemorative plaques located on the Martyrs' Square of Warsaw Wola commemorate nearly 50,000 residents of the district, Home Army soldiers and clergy, and consecrated persons murdered by SS troops and the German police in the first days of August 1944. The square is now one of the most important memorial sites for the victims of the Wola Massacre.

"The German murder of the defenseless inhabitants of Wola is assessed by historians as one of the largest mass crimes of the civilian population during World War II. The order to cleanse Warsaw of its population and raze the capital of Poland to the ground was to intimidate the whole of Europe. This unimaginable drama of entire families, which took place on the streets of Warsaw's Wola, deserves our special memory, and places such as Plac Męczenników Warszawskiej Wola require our care," Wojciech Dąbrowski, president of the management board of PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna, said.

The aim of the planned works is to revitalize the square next to the Redemptorist Church on ul. Karolkowa 49 in Warsaw and a worthy commemoration of the victims of the Wola Massacre.

(WBJ)