Warsaw

Do you know that…? 1944• Warsaw Uprising was the largestresistance act of this type in NazioccupiedEurope• overlooking the Vistula River, themonument of the Warsaw Mermaidhas the face of Krystyna Krahelska, apoet and author of one of the mostpopular songs of the Uprising, i.e.‘Hej chłopcy bagnet na broń’ (HeyBoys, Fix Bayonets!) and many others.Krahelska (‘Danuta’) was part of theHome Army. Heavily injured alreadyon the first day of the operation, shedied on August 2, 1944. The legendhas it that she was wounded at thesame time as a bullet hit the saidmonument• Soviet authorities marginalised themeaning of the Warsaw Uprising– when informing Prime MinistersMikołajczyk and Churchill thatthe Russians did not intend tosupport the belligerent Insurgents,Joseph Stalin called the operationa ‘Warsaw disturbance’Mermaid Statue at Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie (photo: PZ. Studio)