Celebrating 'Constitution Day'

3rd May 1944: A pious and proud congregation makes a dangerous act of defiance in Poland

The Polish Home Army, the underground resistance, had been established in 1942 and was now highly organised - if lacking in heavy weapons.

It had been a long and bitter war for Poland. Its Jewish population had been all but destroyed while ordinary Poles endured all manner of persecution under the German occupation. The Polish Armed forces had suffered …