Outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising: Bariccade on intersection of Świętokrzyska and Mazowiecka Streets viewed from Napoleon Square. Photo: Jerzy Tomaszewski / Public domain

Outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising

Outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising: Bariccade on intersection of Świętokrzyska and Mazowiecka Streets viewed from Napoleon Square. Photo: Jerzy Tomaszewski / Public domain

Every year on the 1 August Warsaw commemorates the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. The fights against Nazi occupation in Warsaw, organised by the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) started at 5 pm, 1 August 1944 and lasted for 63 days.

 

Daria Czarneczka: The Warsaw Uprising - 1 August 1944

 

Paweł Ukielski: Warsaw Uprising in the Consciousness of Poles. Warsaw Rising Museum as a Place of Remembrance.
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