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 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🕯️