Easy hikes and walks around gmina Brok

On May 10, 1964, after years of preparations, the official, ceremonial unveiling of the monument commemorating the victims of German repression and crimes at the Treblinka I Labor Camp took place. The author of the monument was Franciszek Strynkiewicz – a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, who was the general designer of the entire spatial and architectural layout at the Treblinka Memorial Site. The monument in the clearing at the Execution Site refers to the execution wall in its appearance. It is built of blocks, the shape of which resembles drops of spilled blood. A recurring motif are four straight, vertical lines carved in the stone. They can be interpreted in various ways, e.g. as bullet marks or prisoner striped uniforms, although prisoners in the Treblinka I Penal Labor Camp did not wear striped uniforms. In front of the monument lies a slab with the inscription: "In tribute to the murdered". The entire monument is incorporated into the dark wall of the forest surrounding the clearing. On the path behind the monument there is a mound topped with a cross, which was built by school children in September 1947. It contains the bones of victims, which were collected at that time on the grounds of the former camp. This is the first commemoration of the Treblinka I Penal Labor Camp. The mass graves located in the forest surrounding the clearing with the main monument have been marked with concrete crosses. Individual crosses deep in the forest also mark other graves located there.

Monuments and cemetery in Treblinka

The wooden house situated on the Bug River is a spatial manifestation of Open Form – an idea that Oskar Hansen made the axis of his architectural, artistic and didactic work. Since 2014, the house has been under the care of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and at the end of 2017 it became a branch of the Museum. Source: https://archiwum.artmuseum.pl/pl/muzeum/szumin

Big, beautiful, powerful! Worth a visit!

On top of that, a nice and relatively clean shelter. A natural monument at the entrance.

At the beginning of May 2014, thanks to the efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the wooden house of Zofia and Oskar Hansen in Szumin was opened to the public. Located in Mazovia, in the picturesque old riverbed of the Bug River, it is a spatial manifesto of the idea of Open Form, which Oskar Hansen, a Polish member of Team 10, made the axis of his architectural work. The house, built since 1968, fully expressed these ideas, being one of the few works of the Hansens realized in accordance with their wishes, without the restrictions imposed by the socialist construction industry. The time-space architecture, smoothly connecting the interior and the exterior, contained within itself the element of change, easily adapting to the changing needs of its users. Built as a frame for life, it comes alive with the presence of people. The special atmosphere of the house is co-created by traces of the activities and passions of its inhabitants - didactic instruments placed around the house for learning the basics of composition; a steel structure from the 1977 Venice Biennale with vines climbing up it, and a wooden dovecote which Zofia Hansen considered to be her husband's most perfect work.

A very interesting attraction of the Masovian Voivodeship. Sand dunes covering quite a large area, and the Kules peat bog right next to it. In 2014, an ecological site with an area of over 9 ha was established in order to protect the ecosystem constituting a habitat and a refuge for protected species of plants and animals associated with the dune environment.

A picturesque path along the slopes along the bank of the Bug River. It is located in the Bug Landscape Park.