Mały Powstaniec (Little Insurgent) by Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, 1983
Podwale, Stare Miasto (Old Town)
Warsaw, September 2018
“Mały Powstaniec is a statue in commemoration of the child soldiers who fought and died during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. It is located on Podwale Street, next to the ramparts of Warsaw’s Old Town. The statue is of a young boy wearing a helmet too large for his head and holding a submachine gun. It is reputed to be of a fighter who went by the pseudonym of ‘Antek’, and was killed on 8 August 1944 at the age of 13. The helmet and submachine gun are stylized after German equipment, which was captured during the uprising and used by the resistance fighters against the occupying forces. Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz created the design for the monument in 1946, which was later used to make smaller copies of its present state. The statue was unveiled on 1 October 1983 by Professor Jerzy Świderski – a cardiologist who was a courier for the resistance during the uprising (pseudonym: ‘Lubicz’) serving in the Gustaw regiment of the Armia Krajowa.” (Mały Powstaniec, Wikipedia)
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