The Gate of Grassroots, or Ivanovo Gate, is the eastern gate of the Warsaw Citadel, an ancient fortress in Żoliborz. The gate was built in the 1930s. It was supposed to allow quick and secure access to the Vistula River. After 1886, it was the site of the execution of political prisoners who were hanged or shot. Today is a place of remembrance.
To the Gate of Tragedy leads the so-called. The Way of the Dead, which the prisoners were led to die. In the 1930s, you can see a glass of gallows standing in front of the gate and a tree underneath the shotgun. Fragments of gallows and trees are located in a statue that was set before the Citadel.
At present, the gate is a place of national remembrance for victims of tsarist repression. The initiator of the creation of the mausoleum was the Circle of the Warsaw Association of Former Political Prisoners. There are 6 commemorative plaques on the walls of the gate with names of the victims. There is also a symbolic cemetery with 152 crosses and 7 matzevot.
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