The Warsaw Uprising

Published: Aug. 1, 2014, 8 a.m.

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On 1 August 1944, resistance fighters in the Polish capital rose up against German occupying forces. The uprising lasted for 63 days and some 200,000 people were killed - the city itself was largely destroyed. Zbigniew Pelczynski was one of the young Poles fighting to free Warsaw from the Nazis.

(Photo: Zbigniew Pelczynski in 1946)

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