Statue of Władysław Bartoszewski (Sopot)

The statue of Władysław Bartoszewski is a monument in Sopot, Poland, within the neighbourhood of Lower Sopot. The statue is placed at a small urban square at the intersection of Kościuszki and Chopina Streets, in front of the Sopot railway station and the mall Sopot Centrum, located at 12B Kościuszki Street. The monument was Jacek Kiciński and was unveiled on 5 July 2020. It has a 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.