Mały Powstaniec

This guide to the Mały Powstaniec statue in Warsaw starts with the name most Varsovians give the bronze boy, Antek Rozpylacz, and the mismatch between that nickname's real owner and the child figure standing here. It traces sculptor Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz's nineteen forty-six design, the decades before Warsaw raised him at full size in nineteen eighty-three, and the former child courier who unveiled him. A plaque behind the statue carries a line from a wartime song sung by children who marched to battle.