The Warsaw Uprising was a struggle by the Polish Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi occupation during the 2nd World War. The Uprising began on 1st of August 1944 as part of nationwide rebelion and continued for 63 days until the Polish surrendered. Visit to the Warsaw Rising Museum, which is considered the most modern museum in Poland. It collects photographs, weapons used by insurgents, letters and other testimonies of how life was during 1944. You will find there the interactive displays as well as the Palladium Cinema playing footage taken by the Polish insurgents' own cameramen. The names of insurgents fallen during the Uprising were placed on the 156-meter long Memorial Wall. In the afternoon free time or visit to the Palmiry Cemetery, located 25 km from Warsaw, which was one of the sites of German mass executions of Polish intelectuals, politicians and athletes and Modlin Fortress, one of the biggest Polish fortresses and the place of “Battle of Modlin” during the Invasion of Poland.
Overnight in Warsaw |