The pre-war revelers group Chór Juranda, established in 1932, sings the tango-confession of their love for Warsaw: "Warszawo, piękna Warszawo" (Warsaw, o beautiful Warsaw!/ You're with me day and night).
The pre-ar city, often called "Paris of the East) was almost totally annihilated by the Nazi fury between 1939 - 1945. At first,the air-rides in September 1939 destroyed the big part of the central Warsaw, although it was supposed to be protected by the status of the "open city".
In april 1943, diuring the uprising of the remnants of Jews, still alive in the Ghetto, another huge part of the central Warsaw was destroyed to the ground. The end ot the city's apocalypse was the Warsaw Uprising in August-October 1944. After it's fall, and according to the mad & urious Hitler's order - that the fighting city it must be erased from the map - Warsaw was systematically burnt or blown up house after the house, street after the street. Third Reicch, just before its own death, has devoured its last victim, while Stalin's Red Army was waiting on the other bank of the Vistula river, watching in peace the agony of the capital of the nation, who had beaten them in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war. What a story, what a city...
The photos show the steets rescued only on the handful of photographs and movies from before 1939.
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