The Warsaw Uprising Monument, unveiled in 1989, depicts fighters of the Home Army during the 1944 Uprising — some emerging from a manhole cover that symbolises the sewers used to move between parts of the city, others advancing in the street. The figures are larger than life and rendered with great specificity; this is not an abstract monument but a very physical one.
The monument stands near the Warsaw Rising Museum and is an appropriate complement to a museum visit. It is named after the 1944 Uprising (Powstanie Warszawskie) rather than the 1943 Ghetto Uprising — a distinction that confuses many visitors. The former was a broader civilian and military rising against the German occupation; the latter was a specifically Jewish uprising within the Ghetto.