The symbolic grave-monument Golgota Wschodu [The Golgotha ​​of the East]

A symbolic monument-grave, the so-called the Golgotha ​​of the East, was unveiled at the municipal cemetery in Gryfino on the occasion of the National Independence Day on 11th November 1995. The prime movers of the construction of the monument were members of the Association of Sybiracy in Gryfino. It commemorates the Poles deported to Siberia who did not returned, those who were murdered in the Soviet Union and the Polish soldiers who died on the fronts of World War II. The monument has the form of an irregular wall with several commemorative plaques attached. In the centre, a huge boulder was placed. On one of the plaques on the wall we can read the text: 'In tribute to the dead and murdered victims of Stalinism on inhuman land on the 55th anniversary of the deportation of Poles to Siberia'. In 2014, the monument to the Matka Polka Sybiraczka [Polish Mother Sybiraczka] was unveiled at the Golgotha of the East. Its author is Izyda Srzednicka-Sulkowska, an artist-sculptor. The monument depicts a woman and two small children. The mother holds bread in one hand and one of the children in the other, while the other child, who stands on the ground, climbs to reach the hunk of bread. The monument is a tribute to all mothers who have brought up their children in inhuman conditions, fighting for each day of life.