🏟️ Telesfor Badetko Memorial

The Telesfor Badetko Memorial is a monument in Szczecin, Poland, located within the neighbourhood of Łękno in the Downtown district. It is placed at the Telesfor Badetko Square, at the corner of Polish Armed Forces Avenue and Bohdana Zaleskiego Street. The monument commemorates Telesfor Badetko (1920–1992), a 20th-century military officer who served in the Grey Ranks and Home Army as part of the Polish resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War. Prior to, and after the war, he was active in the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association, including founding and being the first leader of its district in the neighbourhood of Pogodno in Szczecin. It was sculptured by Janina Jeleńska-Papp, and unveiled on 9 May 1999. It has a form of a sandstone obelisk with the height of 2.5 m, with the triangular cutout on its front side, with the relief of the bust of Telesfor Badetko inside of it.