Looking right at you is Zofia Dąbrowska, 19, medic in the Home Army "Zośka" Battalion, photographed three days before she suffered wounds that would kill her within twenty-four hours.
Looking right at you is Zofia Dąbrowska, 19, medic in the Home Army "Zośka" Battalion, photographed three days before she suffered wounds that would kill her within twenty-four hours. ➡ The Warsaw Uprising, which broke out 1 August 1944, was the Polish Underground’s effort to liberate the capital city from the Germans, and to show the approaching Soviets that we'd taken it, we had it, and we’d keep it. No need to bring us a government cause we already have one, thank you very much. ➡ 50,000 people fought, many more helped; 16,000 to 18,000 underground soldiers perished, and at least ten times that number of civilians lost their lives. 17,000 combatants went into POW camps, up to 450,000 non-combatants into concentration and work camps. ➡ The city was razed to the ground, most of it after the Uprising. On Hitler’s express orders, Brandkommandos, flamethrower operators, and Sprengkommandos, explosives teams, went street after street and block after block. In addition to th...