Revealing Monument to Displaced Gdynians, Gdynia, Poland
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In october 2014 this monument comemorating the displaces citizens of Gdynia was revealed. It was 75 years since the displacement.
Waymark Code: WMZJHX
Location: Dolnośląskie, Poland
Date Posted: 11/19/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
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About the monument:
""This particularly emotive monument was created to remember those Gdynians deported from the city following the Nazi takeover in 1939.

Estimates range from 120,000 to 170,000 people and included an estimated 30,000 who were interred or sent as forced labour elsewhere in the Reich. The others were sent south to the General Government area of Nazi-controlled Poland and typically were the women and children whose husbands and fathers were forced to work for the Nazis. Those that remained were subjected to Germanization programmes and many were later conscripted to fight in the German army. The homes and property left behind were taken over by Germans resettled in the city as the Germans fortified it as a Naval base and renamed the city Gotenhafen.

When the war ended many of those deportees who had survived the war returned on foot to try to find their loved ones and reclaim their homes.

The statue depicts a mother, her son and daughter with nothing more than a suitcase walking in the direction of the railway station as the daughter reaches out to her dog which she has been forced to leave behind. It was designed by Pawel Sasin and Adam Dziejowski was unveiled in October 2014."
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The article in Polish:
"W 75. rocznice pierwszych wysiedlen ludnosci polskiej przez okupanta niemieckiego, w Gdyni zostal dzisiaj odsloniety pomnik Gdynian Wysiedlonych. W uroczystosci udzial wzieli m. in. przedstawiciele Stowarzyszenia Gdynian Wysiedlonych, rodziny wysiedlonych, wladze miasta a takze mieszkancy.

Pomnik stanal na skwerze u zbiegu ulic Starowiejskiej i Dworcowej, dokladnie w tym samym miejscu, gdzie zmuszani do wyjazdu gdynianie oczekiwali na transport. Monument autorstwa rzezbiarzy Adama Dziejowskiego i Pawla Sasina przedstawia rodzine: matke, syna ciagnacego wózek z czescia dobytku a takze córke, która oglada sie za pozostajacym w tyle psem. Zwierze jest symbolem tego wszystkiego co gdynianie zostawiali wygnani ze swych domów.

Monument zrealizowany zostal ze srodków miasta. Dokumentacje techniczna opracowalo Biuro Projektów Budownictwa Komunalnego w Gdansku. Koszt dokumentacji wyniósl 446.200,00 zl brutto – w tym wykonanie i montaz rzezby 273.400,00 zl brutto. Wykonawca robót bylo Przedsiebiorstwo Produkcyjno-Handlowo-Uslugowe MARBUD Ryszard Marcinkiewicz z siedziba w Gdyni – koszt realizacji to 1.009.185,00 zl brutto. Laczny koszt inwestycji to 1.455.385,00 zl brutto. Roboty budowlane rozpoczely sie 27 czerwca 2014, a zakonczyly 19 wrzesnia br.

Przypomnijmy, masowe wysiedlenia gdynian rozpoczely sie praktycznie zaraz po zajeciu miasta przez Niemców we wrzesniu 1939 roku. Okupant chcial, by Gdynia stala sie portem wojennym, zatem ludnosc polska byla tu niepozadana i miala ja zastapic ludnosc niemiecka. Wedlug zarzadzenia, wysiedlani musieli pozostawic cale mienie za wyjatkiem podrecznego bagazu, zas w drzwiach mialy zostac klucze. Przez caly okres drugiej wojny swiatowej z Gdyni wysiedlono prawie 80% mieszkanców narodowosci polskiej."
Type of publication: Newspaper

When was the article reported?: 10/14/2018

Publication: Gazeta Kaszubska

Article Url: [Web Link]

Is Registration Required?: no

How widespread was the article reported?: local

News Category: Arts/Culture

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