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Every year, on August 1, exactly at 5 pm, alarm sirens sound throughout #Warsaw🇵🇱.
The city freezes. People stop and stand in silence for a minute. They step out of their cars. Some salute. Some cry.
Read our 🧶 to find out why we do it⤵️
#WarsawUprising #Rising44
The city freezes. People stop and stand in silence for a minute. They step out of their cars. Some salute. Some cry.
Read our 🧶 to find out why we do it⤵️
#WarsawUprising #Rising44
On August 1, 1944, at 5 pm, as ordered by the Home Army commander-in-chief, Gen. Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, the #WarsawUprising began.
For 63 days, the insurgents, old and young, men and women, fought heroically, and alone, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.
#WeRemember🕯️
For 63 days, the insurgents, old and young, men and women, fought heroically, and alone, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.
#WeRemember🕯️
"The end. Everything over. Two hundred thousand people lying under the ruins. Along with #Warsaw."
- Miron #Białoszewski, poet 🪶
After 63 days of fierce fighting, the #WarsawUprising collapsed. It left the city in ruins and took between 160.000 and 200.000 lives 🕯️
#Rising44
- Miron #Białoszewski, poet 🪶
After 63 days of fierce fighting, the #WarsawUprising collapsed. It left the city in ruins and took between 160.000 and 200.000 lives 🕯️
#Rising44
