On 1 August 1944 at 5 pm, the troops of the Home Army Warsaw District and the units at the disposal of the Home Army Headquarters launched an assault on German targets in all the areas in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw. This year we are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.
1 August in Wroclaw
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Sirens to scream at 5 pm
The celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising will start on 1 August. The Governor of Lower Silesia, Tomasz Smolarz, ordered for the test of the sirens to be carried out both in Wroclaw and the entire region of Lower Silesia. As part of the training acoustic signalswill be sent: at 17.00-17.03 the "Alert" signal and at 17.08-17.11 the "Alert called off" signal.
Distribution of the sirens:
- ul. Swobodna 71
- ul. Piłsudskiego 62
- ul. Stalowa 62
- ul. Parkowa 18
- ul. Gołężycka 4a
- pl. Św. Macieja 21
- ul. Trzebnicka 42
- ul. Grabiszyńska 6
- ul. Kościuszki 84
- ul. Nowowiejska 78
- ul. Rynek 9/11
- ul. Wojrowicka 58
- ul. Borowska 138
- ul. Krajewskiego 1/3
- pl. Powstańców Śląskich 20
- ul. Komandorska 118
- ul. Tramwajowa 2B
- ul. Pawia 35
- ul. Eluarda 51
- pl. Solidarności 1/3
- ul. Stabłowicka 147
- ul. Tęczowa 60
- ul. Krucza 49
- ul. Januszowicka 35/37
- ul. Reja 1/3
- ul. Poleska 46
- ul. Małopanewska 5
- ul. Koszykarska 2-4
- ul. Głubczycka 3
- ul. Kosmonautów 274
- ul. Czarnieckiego 5
- ul. Jugosławiańska 67
- ul. Solskiego 13
- ul. Sarbinowska 10
- ul. Brücknera 10
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Resistance soldiers with leaflets willraise awareness with the action "Stop"
"We are going to distribute leaflets in Polish and in English with the information on the Warsaw Uprising: what happened, what events led to it and why it affected not only Warsaw, but the whole of Poland as well," says Dominika Arendt-Wittchen, the event coordinator.
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Vernissage of the exhibition devoted to W-hour
The Lower Silesia Centre for Photography "Romanesque House" is planning to open the exhibition "Warsaw Uprising. 70th Anniversary" to commemorate the 70th anniversary of outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. Photographs of the Uprising were taken by eminent photographers: Stefan Bałuk, Sylwester Braun nom de guerre Kris, Tadeusz Bukowski, Wiesław Chrzanowski, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Józef Jerzy Karpiński and Leonard Sempoliński.
The photographs reproduced in the book and presented in the exhibition are one of the most pertinent and outstanding works that now serve as evidence of the Warsaw Uprising. Even though they cannot convey, even in the slightest, the tragedy of the Uprising and the enormous heroism of the fighters and civilians, they leave a powerful and distinctive mark on their viewers. These barium copies come from a private collection and were used to create large format works that emphatically show the human tragedy of the Uprising and the destruction of the city.
A catalogue will be published in Polish and English to document the exhibition. Photographs are open to the public until 27 September from Monday to Saturday between 10.00-18.00.
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Letters to friends and family. 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising
exhibition of the Mail and Telecommunications Museum in Wroclaw (Plac Krasińskiego 1), from 1 August until 13 October 2014
They had to contain no more than 25 words. Letters from resistance fighters in Warsaw were delivered by a special mail service which operated thanks to young boy scouts and girl guides from Grey Ranks. The exhibition will present 60 selected letters, a special mail box (one of the two extant boxes of this kind) as well as photographs and postage stamps issued by the mail.
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Multimedia presentations
A special multimedia fountain show was created to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. The show begins at 10 pm.
4 August: formal celebrations
Formal celebrations, organised by the Mayor of Wroclaw, Rafał Dutkiewicz; the Governor of Lower Silesia, Tomasz Smolarz; and the Marshal of the Province of Lower Silesia, Cezary Przybylski, will be held at 2 pm at the Impart Festival Office on ul Mazowiecka.14.00 - opening, welcome, speeches14.20 - handing of the following medals: "Pro memoria" and "Pro Patria" and the distinctions of the Guardian of National Remembrance Sites 15.00 - musical show "Miron Białoszewski – A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising" directed by Jerzy Bielunas/ The show consists of a dozen or so songs composed by Mateusz Pospieszalski. They will be rendered by the three eminent performers: Kinga Preis (actress), Adam Nowaka(frontman of Raz, Dwa, Trzy) and the composer himself. Tickets are available at 10 PLN.
10 August: amazing show in Wroclaw's Main Market Square
The reconstruction will aim to show the attempts that both the resistance fighters and civilians of Warsaw made to save the remains of normal life in the thick of military activity. The show will feature a wedding ceremony given by a priest during the break in combat. The ceremony will be interrupted by a raid from the JU-87 Stuka dive bomber plane. Those who attend the event will as be able learn more about the work of the insurgent mail service, whose couriers reached all the fighters and often laid their lives to deliver their letters. The show will also present the tragic events of 13 August 1944, when the explosion of 450-kg bomb on ul Kilińskiego in Warsaw's Old Town killed at least 300 soldiers and civilians. The massacre went down as one of the most tragic events in the history of the Warsaw Uprising and was caused by the Nazis using Borgward B IV vehicles. The vehicles were hitherto unknown to resistance fighters.
This year's events in the Main Market Square will feature historic military equipment, stun guns and grenades and pyrotechnic shows. Approximately 200 actors and extras, including members of various reconstruction groups that gather people passionate about history, will take part in the reconstruction. There will also be stuntmen, music and sound effects. The events will be also accompanied by comments from a professional voice-over artist.
The event starts at 4 pm.
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