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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 Warsaw Uprising began with simultaneous coordinated attacks at 17:00 hours on August 1, 1944 (W-hour). The uprising was intended to last a few days until Soviet forces arrived; however, this never happened, and the Polish forces had to fight almost without any outside assistance.
1943 - April–May: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Warsaw Uprising. 1944 Subcamp of the Oflag 73 prisoner-of-war camp for officers established by the Germans in Praga. [36] 27 July: German Festung Warschau established. August–October: Warsaw Uprising against German occupation. [37] 1 August: Execution at Powązkowska Street perpetrated by the Germans.
This is a timeline of Polish history, ... Warsaw Uprising begins October 2: Warsaw Uprising ends 1945: January 26: Przyszowice massacre: February 11: Yalta Conference ...
1659 image of the Warsaw Siren. The history of Warsaw spans over 1400 years. In that time, the city evolved from a cluster of villages to the capital of a major European power, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth—and, under the patronage of its kings, a center of enlightenment and otherwise unknown tolerance.
Powstanie Warszawskie – rejestr miejsc i faktów zbrodni [The Warsaw Uprising – Register of Locations and Facts of Crimes] (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of National Remembrance. {}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default ; Przygoński, Antoni (1980). Powstanie warszawskie w sierpniu 1944 r. [The Warsaw Uprising in August 1944] (in Polish ...
Jewish prisoners liberated by Polish Home Army from German Gęsiówka camp in 1944 Warsaw Uprising. A substantial number of Poles risked their lives in the German occupation to save Jews. German-occupied Poland was the only European territory where the Germans punished any kind of help to Jews with death for the helper and his entire family ...
1815–1830 - the puppet Polish Kingdom, ruled by tsars (kings of Poland), with some autonomy, especially separate armed forces, which fought in the Polish-Russian War 1830–1831, largely known as the November Uprising; after the war the Kingdom became officially part of the Russian Empire, hence all Polish forces were disbanded.