September Barricade Monument

The September Barricade Monument is a brutalist mounument in Warsaw, Poland. It is located in the district of Ochota, at Grójecka Street, near the intersection with Opaczewska Street. The monument commemorates a barricade that was constructed by the Polish Armed Forces during the Siege of Warsaw, and used between 8 and 27 September 1939. It consists of three large concrete sculptures, depicting numerals of dates 8-IX, the day the barricade was erected, 1939, the year of the siege, and 27-IX, the day the city capitulated. It was designed by Julian Pałka, and unveiled on 12 September 1979.