The Parade of Respect is a new initiative in the calendar of national holidays. Its participants marched through the streets of the capital city for the first time. The occasion was the National Day of Remembrance of Home Army Soldiers, celebrated since last year on 14 February, i.e. on the anniversary of the reorganisation of the Union of Armed Struggle into the Home Army (1942), one of the largest underground organisations in German-occupied Europe.

Organised by the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression (with the participation of the Jan Karski Institute of War Losses), the Parade of Respect set off at noon on 14 February this year from the Church of the Holy Cross after a solemn mass. Its participants marched through the streets of Warsaw to the Home Army and Polish Underground State Monument located near the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.

Tribute was paid to the participants of the independence conspiracy by representatives of state and local authorities, the Polish Army, veterans' organisations, numerous reenactors, scouts and residents of Warsaw who were present at the parade. At the culmination of the ceremony, wreaths were laid at the monument by, among others, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Sejm Marshal Włodzimierz Czarzasty.

This group also included Lech Parell, Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, and Dr Bartosz Gondek, Director of the Jan Karski Institute for War Losses.