The monument is a sculptural composition made from bronze and rose coloured granite with a height of 6.5 metres (21 ft). In the middle of the memorial is a bodiless, almost weightless bronze figure, which depicts the spirit of the people, which has lost its matter and has only its courage, strength and invincibility fluttering around in space. Within the stone-cutting, the faces of those who shortly before were people have become eternal and are shown, speaking, asking and screaming.[4][5]
At the base of the memorial there is a granite plate (1.5 x 0.65m) with the inscription:
"This earth, which has seen much suffering, is a witness of the cruelty of the fascist destruction of tens of thousands of prisoners of war and peaceful citizens of Schytomyr from 1941 to 1943. In eternal memory of the deceased."
In 2002 a capsule, containing the remains of the inhabitants of Schytomyr who were tortured to death in KZ Majdanek, was buried. The engraving on it says:
"At this place the remains of our countrymen who were tortured to death in Hitler's KZ Majdanek are buried. In eternal memory."
At the right of the composition there is a pink granite plate with the inscription "Sculptor J. Tabachnyk and Architect P. Biryuk".
