Monument to World War II Orthodox Victims

Monument to World War II Orthodox sufferers in Bialystok is a privately funded memorial commemorating the reminiscence of 5,000 Orthodox Christians from the Bialystok area who perished in World War II in addition to, during the postwar repressions in Stalinist Poland. The monument turned into unveiled in 2012 adjoining to the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Bialystok, that is the most important Orthodox church in Poland. The monument is located in the wall surrounding the church, and capabilities a memorial plaque written in languages, reading: "To Orthodox victims of World War II, martyrs for religion and nationality in the years 1939–1956. The saints of Podlachia".

There is a boulder build into the monument, list names of villages pacified in 1946 throughout the anticommunist revolt – no different places of wartime atrocities or categories of sufferers are cited. The memorial changed into constructed with private donations from the parishioners, on the price of 70,000 Polish zloty. The centrepiece boulder lists particularly villages pacified by using cursed infantrymen from PAS NZW; inhabited by way of Christians and non-Christians of ethnic Belarusian history destroyed by using Nazi occupants.