Polish President pays tribute to 1944 Warsaw insurgents

President Andrzej Duda has met with a group of veterans and laid a wreath at a plaque commemorating late Polish President Lech Kaczyński at the Warsaw Rising Museum to mark the upcoming 78th anniversary of the 1944 insurgency.

President of Poland Andrzej Duda during a wreath-laying ceremony in front of a plaque commemorating President Lech Kaczyński at the Warsaw Uprising Museum o Saturday.

Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka

To honour the bloody World War II revolt, President  Duda and Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski met on Saturday with a group of the 1944 Warsaw insurgents at the Warsaw Uprising Museum.

Prior to the meeting, President Duda laid a wreath in front of the plaque commemorating Lech Kaczyński, the late Polish head of state who died in the Smolensk air disaster in April 2010.

Monday will mark exactly 78 years since the Warsaw Uprising broke out on August 1, 1944.

The bloody insurgency, also known as the Warsaw Rising, lasted 63 days before it was put down by better equipped and more numerous German forces.

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Source: PAP