Thank you Stephan Keller, the Düsseldorf Oberbürgermeister🇩🇪, for you visit to the Warsaw Rising Museum yesterday. Showing our exhibition about the #WarsawRising1944 at the same time to you and the former Germany's President Horst Köhler, brought hope to our hearts that more and

Horst Köhler, former 🇩🇪President of the Federal Republic of Germany (2004 – 2010) visited the Warsaw Rising Museum today.

💬'After my visit, I am at a loss for words. What a story of the valiance of Poles resisting against the cruelty of Germans.'

A fortune teller told Irena Siwicka that her future husband would 'fall from the sky'. A most unlikely thing turned out to be true as in 1943 she met Antoni Żychiewicz who was one of the 316 Polish #SilentUnseen and was INDEED parachuted into occupied Poland🪂. They got married

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Jadwiga Redulska-Jeske got married just a month before the #WarsawRising started. She was a medic. Germans executed her together with her husband, Włodzimierz Jeske, on 2 August 1944.
May she rest in peace and never be forgotten by people of good will🙏
#ThereWasACity

#OTD in 1945, WWII in Europe came to an end. To us, #VEDay didn't bring freedom, it brought a new totalitarian occupation. Poland, “liberated” by the Soviets, had to wait till 1989 to become a sovereign country. While the world was dancing, we had to dig new graves.
We know the

After the #WarsawRising1944 'anything that presented any value was looted by Germans and then the buildings were set on fire. Out of 957 monuments, only 34 survived in a fairly good condition.'
🔎Read our article:📰1944.pl/en/article/pho…

ONE OF THE FIRST SOLDIERS who fell in the #WarsawRising was Zbigniew Madey ‘Borucki’ mortally wounded on Aug, 1 1944. After #WW2 his Mum was ‘lucky’ to find his grave. Others had to live without ever knowing the location of eternal resting place of their loved ones #ThereWasACity

We would like to remind you that today and tomorrow we invite you to the Museum from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m 🔔

A powerful scene of selling BOOKS a few days before #WarsawRising1944 erupted in the heart of Europe...

No matter how much our enemies destroy us, our spirit would get stronger and stronger.

#WorldBookDay 🔹warsawrising.eu
📸Stefan Bałuk 'Starba', Warsaw, July 1944

This diary is a real treasure in our Archive. Włodzimierz Cegłowski 'Sońka' put notes in it day by day for his beloved Zofia since the #WarsawRising1944 started. Unfortunately, he died of wounds in Sept 1944. She neither saw, nor read it. She never got married. She would wait for

'Warsaw. Phoenix from the ashes' is the name of the exhibition that will be open for public in Osaka from 16 April 2024. It tells the story of the capital of Poland under German occupation, during Warsaw Rising in 1944 and after WW2. Earlier, the exhibition was shown in