“Warsaw remembers the insurgents - today, tomorrow, always,” city officials declared on social media, sharing images from the annual gathering with surviving veterans of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
Just ahead of the anniversary, formally observed on August 1, city leaders met with veterans on Wednesday in Freedom Park, outside the Warsaw Uprising Museum.
On Thursday, they laid wreaths at the monument to the Kiliński Battalion, where fierce fighting began in 1944 for control of what was then the tallest building in Warsaw - the Prudential Insurance headquarters.
Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz
During the uprising, the red-and-white Polish flag was famously raised atop the Prudential building, visible across the capital, becoming a powerful symbol of Warsaw’s defiance under Nazi occupation.
Earlier this week, the Warsaw Uprising Museum also opened a special exhibition about Stefan Bałuk — a wartime paratrooper, insurgent, and renowned photographer.
The Warsaw Uprising, launched on August 1, 1944, lasted 63 days and claimed the lives of around 200,000 people - most of them civilians.
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