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New ‘chamber of memory’ to honour thousands of civilians killed during Warsaw Uprising

The Museum of Warsaw said in a press release that the new chamber "will commemorate the tens of thousands of Warsaw residents who died during the fighting and mass executions carried out by German troops.” UM Warszawa

Due to open in mid-2022, the memorial will feature over 62,000 brass plaques with the names of those who died, with many left blank so that new names can be entered as research into naming all the victims continues.

No freedom today without Warsaw Uprising - president

Poles would probably not be free today if not for the heroism and sacrifice of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising insurgents, President Andrzej Duda said on Sunday in Warsaw at commemorations marking the 77th anniversary of the city's revolt against its Nazi-German occupants.

PM lays wreath at Wola Slaughter memorial

PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday in Warsaw laid flowers under a memorial plaque to the 1944 Wola Slaughter to mark the massacre's 76th anniversary.

PM marks WWII 'Wola Slaughter' anniversary

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki remembered the 'Wola Slaughter' perpetrated by Nazi Germany during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, as "the worst civilian massacre of the Second World War" on the event's 76th anniversary.

President pays tribute to "martyrs" of Warsaw's Wola Slaughter

Polish President Andrzej Duda laid a wreath on Saturday at a monument in Warsaw's Wola district that commemorates the liquidation of Wolski hospital by the Nazi German occupiers in 1944 as part of the Wola Slaughter, one of the bloodiest events of the Warsaw Uprising.

‘Hitler killed these girls’ the Shocking Wola Massacre

Enraged by the impertinence of the Polish Home Army, Hitler orders the city wiped off the face of the map - every man, woman and child was to be killed. In the rapture that follows the first days of the Warsaw Uprising, that order became reality for 11 young girls helping the wounded in a hospital. Some of the worst war criminals of World War 2 were set on the defenceless civilians in the West of the city. Including the hospital. This is the story of those 11 girls and how Poles today keep theirs - and the thousands other murdered in what has become known as the Wola massacre - alive.  

The Wola Massacre: On this day 75 years ago Hitler’s depraved SS began one of the largest mass murders in history

By the end of the bloodbath seven days later, 40,000 to 60,000 civilians would be dead, most of them shot, many burned alive and many others raped and mutilated in a sickening, bestial orgy of killing.

Warsaw to commemorate Wola Massacre victims

Warsaw residents will take part on Monday in a Remembrance March to honour civilian victims of the Warsaw Uprising, including the Wola Massacre. The Wola Massacre is considered to have been one of the largest crimes against the Polish population during WWII.

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