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Alone in burnt-out Warsaw

30th October 1944: The extraordinary story of one man's struggle to survive in a destroyed city

Oct 30, 2024
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Destroyed Warsaw, capital of Poland, January 1945.

After the Germans finally ended the Warsaw Uprising they deported the entire remaining population and set about razing the city to the ground. A few hundred Poles managed to escape the deportations, choosing to live on in hiding places in the city. Many were Jews who had been hiding from the Nazis since …

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