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A purported scheme, in Polish, of the gas chamber in the tunnels near Warszawa Zachodnia station. [ e ] Despite the availability of reliable information about the Warsaw concentration camp, [ 5 ] [ 8 ] in the 1980s a since-discredited legend [ 8 ] or conspiracy theory [ 4 ] developed concerning the camp. [ 104 ]
Before World War II, the Gęsiówka was a Polish Army military prison on Gęsia Street (now Anielewicza Street), near the intersection with Okopowa Street and the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery.
Refugees on their way to Pruszków Warszawa Zachodnia station in Warsaw. Waiting for transport to Pruszków Arrival of transport on the railroad siding in Pruszków Refugees upon arrival in Pruszków Pruszków – gate No. 14 Bishop Antoni Szlagowski [] among the prisoners of Dulag 121 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement delegate Dr. Paul Wyss (center) in conversation with SS ...
The decision to build a monument to the ghetto partisans was made as early as in 1944, by the Central Committee of Polish Jews in Lublin. [1] [2] The monument was designed by Leon Suzin.
The Ochota massacre (in Polish: Rzeź Ochoty – "Ochota slaughter") was a wave of German-orchestrated mass murder, looting, arson, torture and rape, which swept through the Warsaw district of Ochota from 4–25 August 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising.
The line was initially announced in February 2023 by the mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, in the city's plan to construct five metro lines by 2050. [1]On March 14, 2024, Warsaw City Council allocated 56 million PLN for pre-design works for the M4 line.
Warsaw Uprising; Part of Operation Tempest of the Polish Resistance and the Eastern Front of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Civilians construct an anti-tank ditch in Wola district; German anti-tank gun in Theatre Square; Home Army soldier defending a barricade; Ruins of Bielańska Street; Insurgents leave the city ruins after surrendering to German forces; Allied transport planes ...
The history of the Staszic Palace dates from 1620, when King Sigismund III of Poland ordered the construction of a small Eastern Orthodox chapel, as an appropriate burial place for the former Tsar Vasili IV of Russia and his brother, Dmitry Shuisky, who had died in Polish custody after having been captured several years earlier during the Polish-Muscovite War of 1605-18.