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19441 August–2 October 1944 · Warsaw

Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising Monument on Krasiński Square, with bronze insurgents emerging from collapsing walls
Photo: Darwinek. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

As the Red Army neared, the Polish Home Army rose against the German occupiers to free Warsaw before the Soviets arrived. Soviet forces halted across the Vistula, and the insurgents fought largely alone for 63 days. Some 16,000 fighters and 150,000 to 200,000 civilians died, many in mass executions. The Germans then expelled the survivors and razed most of the city.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Warsaw Rising MuseumMuseum in a former tram power station, with a replica sewer and supply bomber.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Warsaw Uprising Monument, Krasiński SquareBronze insurgents charging from ruins and climbing down into the sewers.Map ↗
  3. Site 3: Old Town Market SquareHistoric centre rebuilt from rubble after 1945, now a World Heritage Site.Map ↗

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