What's Up :: Warsaw Rising generations later

photo: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

Presented by Slawek Szefs with Agnieszka Bielawska

The biggest disputes concern involving Warsaw's civilian population which was caught in the bloody fighting between underground Home Army insurgents and Nazi German forces still occupying the capital, and with the Soviet Red Army abruptly stopping its westward offensive in fear of Poles establishing a government which would not be pro-Moscow. Ultimately, some 200 thousand Warsaw inhabitants, including children, lost their lives during the 63 day Rising which broke out on 1 August 1944.

We shall also look at the much extended preparations of Poland's school system to enroll 6 year olds.