Alone in burnt-out Warsaw

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

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 …