What connects Washington, New York, Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Łódź, Krakow and Kielce? It would seem that these cities can not have much in common. And yet. This is Karski's bench, which has been established in different parts of the world since 2002. You can see Kielce on the main pedestrian street, which will surely visit anyone arriving in the city.
Karski's bench was set up in Kielce in 2005. It is a copy of the first such memorial located at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where Karski was a lecturer. The statue depicts a professor leaning over a chess game, his favorite game and leaning on a cane. It stands on the bridge, at the intersection of Henryk Sienkiewicz and Planty Streets. This is a symbolic place.
Monument to the Polish emissary, who during the war informed the world about the Holocaust, and after it was active in favor of Polish-Jewish dialogue, was placed in the neighborhood of the house where the Kielce pogrom took place in 1946. The monument quickly grew into a landscape of the Kielce pedestrian street and is today one of the favorite meeting places for the inhabitants.
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