Place of the Polish fight for the freedom of their homeland (Długa Street, near the corner with Bohaterów Getta Street)
The freestanding plaque, designed by Karol Tchorek, commemorates the breakdown by the German air force of the insurgent redoubt in the Simon’s Passage (Pasaż Simonsa), defended by soldiers of the “Chrobry I” battalion during the Warsaw Uprising. Simon’s Passage was a redoubt defending access to the Old Town, and in his cellars there was a insurgent sanitary facility, where the civilians were also sheltered. The building was bombarded several times and fired. During the German air force attack on August 31st 1944, the building collapsed. More than 200 people were killed under its ruins: mainly soldiers defending the passage from the battalion “Chrobry I”, injured from the battalion dressing point and the civilians. During the post-exhumation, 99 people were recovered, and the rest were buried beneath the fallen basements. The building is reminiscent of fragments of reinforced concrete.