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On March 28, 2001, a foundation act for the construction of the Juliusz Słowacki monument was signed in the Presidential Palace. The document had previously been signed by Pope John Paul II. During the ceremony, President Aleksander Kwaśniewski established the Honorary Committee for the Construction of the Juliusz Słowacki Monument in Warsaw. The monument, created by artist Edward Wittig, was unveiled in 2001 in the location where the monument to Feliks Dzierżyński stood, which was demolished in 1989.

The Antoni Engel tenement house at Piotrkowska Street 3 in Lodz, Poland had its courtyard decorated with a mosaic of cut mirrors in different shapes. This project was created as a part of the "Lodz of Four Cultures" Festival in 2014. The artist behind this installation is Joanna Rajkowska.
The Rose Passage is a unique project by artist Joanna Rajkowska, which was inspired by her daughter's illness, Rose. The project involved gluing small pieces of mirrors on the walls of a tenement house located at 3 Piotrkowska Street. The mirrors covered all the walls of the backyard, creating a sparkling and vibrant space. The light-reflecting mosaic also creates an illusion of disjointed and distorted images, symbolizing the broken state of the retina of an eye. The project aims to encourage people to piece together the fragments of reality, much like how Rose had to reconstruct her own vision after chemotherapy.

In 2004, the 60th anniversary of the destruction of the Łódź Ghetto in 1944 and the last transport from Radegast prompted efforts to turn the former station into a Holocaust memorial.
On August 28, 2005, a monument was unveiled in memory of Jewish victims who were transported through the station. Designed by Czesław Bielecki, the monument features a 140-meter Tunnel of the Deported. The renovated station building now serves as one of the branches of the Łódź Museum of Independence.

The Radogoszcz Station in Łódź, Poland played a significant role in the Holocaust as it was the main point of departure for tens of thousands of Jewish people who were sent to death camps during the years 1942-1944.

The Jewish Cemetery of Lodz, established in 1892, was the largest Jewish necropolis in Europe at the time. The decision to create a new cemetery was made after residents of surrounding neighborhoods refused to allow the expansion of the old cemetery on Wesoła Street.
Industrialist and factory owner, Izrael Poznański, donated the first 10.5 hectares of land for the establishment of the cemetery. The outbreak of a cholera epidemic in 1892 forced the Tsarist authorities to accept the construction. The first people buried there were approximately 700 cholera victims.

Izrael Kalman Poznański was a prominent Polish-Jewish businessman and textile magnate in Łódź, Poland during the late 19th century. He was known as one of the "Kings of Cotton" in Łódź, alongside Ludwik Geyer and Karol Scheibler.

The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial located in Budapest, Hungary that was built in 2005. Created by film director Can Togay and sculptor Gyula Pauer, it honors the Jews who were killed by fascist Hungarian militia during World War II. The victims were forced to take off their shoes before being shot and thrown into the Danube River. The memorial symbolizes the shoes that were left behind on the river bank.
The "Shoes on the Danube Bank" monument is situated on the Pest side of the Danube Promenade, near the intersection of Zoltan Street and the Danube River, about 300 meters south of the Hungarian Parliament and close to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The monument, created by a sculptor, features sixty pairs of iron shoes that pay homage to the 3,500 people, including 800 Jews, who were shot into the Danube during the Arrow Cross regime's reign of terror in 1944-45. The shoes are attached to the stone embankment, and behind them is a 40-meter-long, 70-cm-high stone bench. Cast iron signs with the text, "To the memory of the victims shot into the Danube by Arrow Cross militiamen in 1944-45," in Hungarian, English, and Hebrew, are located at three points. The monument was erected on April 16, 2005.

The Town Hall Tower in Kraków is a prominent feature of the Main Market Square in the Old Town district. It is the only remaining part of the original Kraków Town Hall, which was demolished in 1820 as part of a city plan to expand the Main Square. The tower's basement was previously used as a city prison, including a Medieval torture chamber.

The sculpture "Eros Bound" by Igor Mitoraj is one of the most controversial monuments in Poland, located in the historic center of Krakow, on the Market Square.

Adam Mickiewicz, a leading Polish poet, is commemorated by a statue in Kraków, unveiled in 1898 and restored in 1955. A national icon in Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus, his monument is a focal point for cultural and social traditions.