The ''Warsaw Uprising Memorial'' in memory of the deportees of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising stands in the park of the memorial to the victims of the Neuengamme Nazi concentration camp at Hamburg. It was unveiled on 1 September 1999 among others by Hamburg culture senator

Christina Weiss Christina Weiss Lurie is a documentary producer, philanthropist and minority owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles. Weiss Lurie is president of the Eagles Youth Partnership, the team's charitable foundation, and co-founder of three independent ...

and in the presence of novelist

Andrzej Szczypiorski Andrzej Szczypiorski (; 3 February 1928 – 16 May 2000) was a Polish novelist and politician. He served as a member of the Polish legislature, and was a Solidarity activist interned during the military crackdown of 1981. He was a secret polic ...

."Szczypiorski: Nachdenken über die deutschen Sünden", Die Welt, 2 September 1999. On a polished surface made up of 36 elements, two of which with German and Polish texts on opposite sides, and to be walked on, are positioned in three rows 30 rough-hewn granite blocks. A gravel path is leading to the front side of the sculpture with which it forms a small valley. Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, ''A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański'', Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 46, , . The stone used is exclusively Polish

Strzegom Strzegom (german: Striegau) is a town in Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the Gmina Strzegom administrative district (gmina). It lies approximately north-west of Świdnica, and west of th ...

granite. The memorial is dedicated to the 6000 Poles deported from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising to the Nazi concentration camp in Neuengamme and was initiated by the Polish community in Hamburg commemorating at the same time the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Polish sculptor

Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański image:Wappen der Ritter v. Wysoczański nach Siebmacher.jpg, 150px, The Wukry coat of arms Jan Michał, 6th Chevalier Wysoczański, de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz''Almanach de Gotha, Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser'' XX ...

created the monument pro bono."Erinnerung an polnische KZ-Häftlinge – Neues Mahnmal in Neuengamme geplant", Hamburger Abendblatt, No. 97, 27 April 1999, p. 13.

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Neuengamme concentration camp Outdoor sculptures in Hamburg Polish national monuments and memorials Stone sculptures in Germany Monuments and memorials in Hamburg 1999 sculptures 1999 establishments in Germany Warsaw Uprising monuments and memorials {{Poland-hist-stub