Statue of Władysław Bartoszewski (Białystok)

The statue of Władysław Bartoszewski is a monument in Białystok, Poland, within the neighbourhood of Centrum. It is placed at the Władysław Bartoszewski Bridge on the Biała river, connecting Branicki Square and Andrzej Piotr Lussa Square. It was designed by Jacek Kiciński, and unveiled on 12 December 2022. The monument has the form of a bronze statue, depicting Władysław Bartoszewski, a 20th- and 21st-century academic, activist, writer, journalist, politician, and diplomat. In 1942, while Warsaw was under the German occupation during the Second World War, Bartoszewski joined the Home Army underground resistance, and the Council to Aid Jews, and in 1944, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war, he was the ambassador of Poland in Austria from 1990 to 1995, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 1990 to 1995 and from 2000 to 2001, and the chairperson of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites from 2001 to 2015.