Ogród Saski
“Sacred place where Polish blond was shed for the freedom of homeland. The area of heroic battles of 1939 and mass murders from 1939-1944”
The story of Saxon Garden runs back to the time of King Augustus II the Strong coronation. On May 27th 1974, the garden became a public space where the upper class liked to meet. At that time, no one expected that the Saxon Garden would become a place of mass murders, soaked with blood of the Warsaw insurgents. In September 1939 the Summer Theatre, which served during war as an arsenal, was already bombed out. In the Garden area the Polish artillery was situated. However, in May 1942, the Nazis closed Saxon Garden for the citizens and made the already non-existing Saxon Palace their headquarters. The Garden witnessed numerous executions of civilians, among which were charges and teachers of Michaelite Fathers’ juvenile detention center from Struga. Here were also formed the so called “human shields” from Warsaw civilians in order to use them in attack towards the insurgents’ barricades. Dozens of people were arranged in a way they created a cordon, which was supposed to buckler the tank. Warsaw was supposed to be razed to the ground with all of the citizens killed off. The Saxon Garden was completely bombed and perished from the capitol’s map. The Tchorek Tablets (memorial tablets created by Polish sculptor Karol Tchorek) commemorate Polish citizens who died in fights for the freedom of their homeland.