Wiktor Tołkin

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Wiktor Tołkin (February 21, 1922 – May 7, 2013) was a Polish sculptor and architect. He fought with the Armia Krajowa in World War II, was captured by the Gestapo and kept in Auschwitz from 1942 to 1944, and survived a death march to Sandbostel. After the war, he studied at Gdańsk Polytechnic and the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. In the 1960s he became an influential Polish artist. He is best known for monumental memorial sculptures honoring the victims of Nazi camps, especially Stutthof and Majdanek, often using abstract colored concrete with expressive, architectural forms.