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Collection of eyewitness accounts of events taking place during the Warsaw Uprising. It includes formal testimonies given to the commission investigating German/Nazi atrocities as well as personal memoirs and accounts of partisans, civilians, and war correspondents. |
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German Atrocities
The Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland was established in 1945 to collect evidence of German/Nazi crimes committed in occupied Poland during 1939-1945. The following selection of testimonies relates to the atrocities committed against civilians during the Warsaw Uprising. It has been estimated that 65,000 civilians were executed during the first two weeks of August of 1944.
Atrocities photos [ photos  ] |
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german press account September 13, 1944 The Times reprint of a German SS correspondent account from Warsaw published in the German press.
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Julian Eugeniusz Kulski
Excerpts from the chronicle of a 14-year old partisan and member of the Home Army's Zywiciel company fighting in the Jolibord (Zoliborz) district. The complete chronicle covers 1939-1945 including: the 1939 siege of Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, and Mr. Kulski's POW camp imprisonment.
Maps of Jolibord (Zoliborz) [ maps  ] |
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stanislaw likiernik As a member of Kedyw, a sabotage and diversionary section of the Home Army, between 1942–1944 he participated in armed actions against Germans in occupied Warsaw. During the Warsaw Uprising his unit was involved in combat in Vola, Old Town, Chernikow and Centre City districts. The following stories are the fragments of his World War II memoirs.
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Jan Nowak
Fragments of memoirs by Home Army emissary who undertook several hazardous journeys between German-occupied Poland and England. Involved in a successful diversionary propaganda ('Action N') against Nazis. During the Warsaw Uprising operated partisan radio station 'Lighting'
('Blyskawica'). [ radio ]
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Recollections A set of memoirs and diary entries by the Warsaw Uprising participants collected by the Polish Academic Information Center at the New York University at Buffalo.
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Zygmunt Skarbek-Kruszynski Fragments of the WWII memoirs [ see all ] by a civilian who witnessed first two weeks of the Warsaw Uprising from the city suburbs close to the combat zone in the Mokotov district.
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John Ward Articles published in London The Times written and dispatched from Warsaw by British captain responsible for English-language broadcast of the partisan radio station 'Lighting' ('Blyskawica').
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Waclaw Zagorski 'Lech' A captain of the Home Army's Chrobry II battalion defended Centre City's Grzybowska Street.
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