In 1940, the Soviets executed over 20,000 Polish military officers, policemen and civilian prisoners of war. Today, artist Wiktor Szostalo delivered his latest sculpture–a memorial to those dead–to St. Margaret’s in Seattle.
Szostalo worked from a photograph of the bound hands of an executed prisoner, and his steel sculpture is a compelling rendition of anguish.
There is an excellent entry on Wikipedia which tells the story of the massacre, and I urge you to spend a dozen minutes reading it.
The pattern of the gray steel above replicates the braid that trimmed the uniforms of the executed Polish officers.
Below are is a small sequence of the memorial moving into its new home.
