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The ruins of Warsaw, after its systematic and planned destruction by the Nazis, in January 1945, at the time of entry of the Red Army. About two weeks after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, on October 17, 1944, the commander of the German 9th Army stationed in Warsaw, Smilo von Lüttwitz, issued an order in which he informed his soldiers that there was a large number of "sneaky Poles" still ...
Ceremonial opening of the mausoleum on 9 May, 1950. The cemetery was built in 1949–1950, located in Warsaw's Mokotów district. It contains the ashes of 21,668 soldiers of the 1st Belarusian Front who died either in battle or as a result of injury and/or disease sustained during battles for Warsaw against armies of the Third Reich in 1944–1945. [3]
Edelman's funeral. In the background, Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. Edelman died on October 2, 2009. [2] [13] [38] He was buried in Warsaw with full military honours on October 9, 2009. His coffin was covered with a Bund banner inscribed "Bund - Yidisher Sozialistisher Farband," and a choir sang the Bund anthem, "Di Shvue."
English: It's my own faithful copy of picture: Funeral in the city street during Warsaw uprising, 1944; Source: (Polish) Adolf Ciborowski: Warszawa - o zniszczeniu i odbudowie miasta, Warsaw 1969, "Interpress" Publishers, p. 56
On 10 April 2010, a Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft crash landed near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 passengers and crew. [1] Those killed include Kaczyński, and his wife; the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers; the president of the National Bank of Poland; Poland's deputy foreign minister; Polish government officials; 12 members of the ...
Monument to The Fallen Unconquerable in Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery. It is the largest burial site of victims of the Warsaw Uprising, which broke out on 1 August 1944 and lasted until 2 October 1944. Approximately 104,000 people (mainly persons unknown) are buried in the cemetery, mostly in collective graves.
January 7. In Warsaw, a funeral of Roman Dmowski takes place. Jadwiga Wajs gets married in Łódź; January 8. President Mościcki returns to Warsaw, where he meets foreign diplomats and ambassadors to Poland. On the same day, Jurgis Šaulys, a Lithuanian envoy, begins his mission in Warsaw; January 25.
The Warsaw concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Warschau, KL Warschau; see other names) [2] was a German concentration camp in occupied Poland during World War II. It was formed on the base of the now-nonexistent Gęsiówka prison, in what is today the Warsaw neighbourhood of Muranów, on the order of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich ...