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9 unusual facts about Warsaw Uprising


28/32 cm Nebelwerfer 41

A sequence showing sWG 40 launchers being used against Warsaw, during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.

35.5 cm Haubitze M1

It saw service in the Battle of France and spent the rest of the war on the Eastern Front, participating in Operation Barbarossa, the Siege of Sevastopol, the Siege of Leningrad and helped to put down the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.

Aga Zaryan

The album contains nine works by Polish poets, depicting scenes of Warsaw at the time of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, selected and sung by Zaryan to original music composed and arranged by pianist Michał Tokaj.

Janusz K. Zawodny

He took part as a second lieutenant in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during the September campaign, first a soldier of the ZWZ (Związek Walki Zbrojnej), then the AK (Armia Krajowa).

Leopold Fellerer

/NJG 6 also flew operations to counter supply operations from Italy to the Polish Home Army uprising in Warsaw.

Marian P. Opala

In 1944 Opala was captured by German forces in the Warsaw Uprising and held in Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria.

St. Hyacinth's Church, Warsaw

During World War II, the church and monastery served the Polish forces in the Warsaw Uprising as a field hospital.

W. H. Lillard

In 1963, Lillard published a book, Courage on the Danube, which documented the Warsaw Uprising.

Warsaw Tramway

The tram system remained operational, although gradually deteriorating, during most the Nazi occupation until the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, after which all the infrastructure was systematically destroyed.


36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS

When the Armia Krajowa began the Warsaw Uprising on 1 August 1944, Dirlewanger was sent into action as part of the Kampfgruppe formation led by SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinfarth; once again serving alongside Kaminski's militia (now named Waffen-Sturm-Brigade RONA).

Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw

After the end of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 it was deliberately destroyed by Nazi Germans.

Aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising

The failure of the Warsaw Uprising and subsequent Capitulation agreement left Warsaw almost uninhabited.

Alice Parizeau

Born in Łuniniec, Poland, as a young girl Poznańska was associated with the Polish Home Army during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II, which led to her internment in the Bergen-Belsen prisoner of war camp and her receipt of a war medal following the war.

Czesław Centkiewicz

During World War II he remained in Warsaw and after the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 he was arrested by the Germans and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp.

Gęsiówka

On August 5, 1944, during the early phase of Warsaw Uprising, Armia Krajowa's Battalion "Zośka" (Radosław Group of Szare Szeregi) led by Ryszard Białous and Eugeniusz Stasiecki attacked the Gęsiówka camp which was being liquidated at the time.

Jabłkowski Brothers

After the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the store at Bracka street became one of the arsenals for the Armia Krajowa.

Jerzy Ficowski

He was a member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK), was imprisoned in the infamous Pawiak and took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.

Jewish Combat Organization

Some Jews who escaped the final destruction of the ghetto, including youth group members and leaders Kazik Ratajzer, Zivia Lubetkin, Icchak Cukierman and Marek Edelman, would participate in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis.

Kazimierz Pużak

During the Warsaw Uprising (August 1–October 1, 1944)—which he criticized before it was started—Pużak was in Warsaw.

Łukasz Orbitowski

He is a co-author of the script for the CG movie by Tomasz Bagiński about the Warsaw Uprising, Hardkor'44.

Melchior Wańkowicz

One of his daughters, Krystyna, died as a member of Polish resistance Armia Krajowa during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.

Prudential, Warsaw

The Prudential was heavily damaged during World War II, particularly during the Warsaw Uprising when it was hit by approximately 1,000 artillery shells, including a single hit by 2-tonne Karl-Gerät mortar shell, leaving only the steel framework.

Stanisław Aronson

He was also a member of the elite Kedyw unit, "Kolegium A", of the Warsaw Region of AK, a participant in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and a Lieutenant Colonel of the Israeli Defense Force who took part in the Israeli War of Independence, the Yom Kippur War and the 1982 Lebanon War.

Vis pistol

However, underground production of Vis barrels was started in Warsaw and Kielce-based Huta Ludwików, and several hundred Vis pistols were assembled of parts smuggled from the factory, delivered to the Home Army and used extensively during the Warsaw Uprising, among others.


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