You are at the beginning of the next section of the Gallery of Polish Painting and Sculpture, which presents works of art created between 1945 and 2010. The exhibition begins with the painting Shooting (1948) by Andrzej Wróblewski, which has become a kind of symbol of the extermination of the Polish nation during the Second World War. The inspiration for the Shooting series of paintings were photographs of street executions in Bydgoszcz in September 1939, described by Nazi propaganda as 'Bydgoszcz Bloody Sunday'. A significant proportion of the images in this series contain the figure of a boy who is an observer of the events. This figure points to the existence of witnesses to the crime and a generation that had to live with the memory of wartime atrocities. The artist himself, as a fourteen-year-old boy, witnessed the sudden death of his father during a search by the occupying forces in his Vilnius flat in 1941. The painting from the Torun collection was created from 22 to 26 February, preceded by six well-known sketches. The painter placed seven men and two boys on the real wall. Wróblewski portrays the men awaiting death as calm and composed, while after death he depicts them in violent movements and spasms, expressing pain, with arms raised seeking help, which, unfinished - cut off by the painting's frame - will never receive that help again. There is no dialogue between the figures in the painting. They all speak to the viewer.