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Witness History: The Warsaw uprising

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Zbigniew Pelczynski

01/08/2019 GMT

The Warsaw uprising

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On August 1st 1944, Polish resistance fighters rose up against German occupying forces

On August 1st 1944, Polish resistance fighters rose up against German occupying forces.

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, Warsaw itself was largely destroyed. Zbigniew Pelczynski was one of the young Poles fighting to free Warsaw from the Nazis, in 2014 he spoke to Louise Hidalgo about the battle.

(Photo: Zbigniew Pelczynski in 1946)

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