Warsaw: celebrations of the 74th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising



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Wednesday, August 1 marks the 74th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. Again in Warsaw and in many cities of Poland 17 sirens of alarm will be heard, the church bells will be killed and the traffic of the streets will stop, candles will be lit under the plates and flowers will be placed. In the capital, as usual, a rich program of celebrations is planned, in which there will be religious accents, not only with flowers, but also with the prayer to commemorate the dead and the soldiers of the thrust of Before 74 years old. We present selected points of central celebrations

July 29

The commemoration of this year's 74th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising will begin Sunday at the Warsaw Uprising Museum. At 12 Warsaw insurgents will attend a meeting with the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda and the President of Warsaw's capital Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz. During this meeting there will be, among others granting state decorations by the president.
18 in the Freedom Park at the Uprising Museum will be celebrated by a mass. for the inhabitants of Warsaw with the participation of Insurgents, Scouts and Varsovians. After its completion, about 19, a solemn appeal will be launched at the beginning of the Scout Rally.

July 31

On the eve of the Warsaw Uprising 10 in the ballroom at the Royal Castle will be held a solemn session of the Warsaw City Council.
18 on Krasińskich Square, at the monument of the Warsaw Uprising, Bishop Józef Guzdek celebrates Holy Mass. for the purpose of fallen and soldiers of the Uprising and will give a homily. After the Eucharist, the call of the dead will begin, and at 20:30 concert "August Love". President Andrzej Duda will participate in the ceremony

August 1 [19659003] The central celebration of the 74th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising will begin at 9 placing flowers on the plaque commemorating the signature of the then Colonel. Antoni Chruściel "Montera", commander of the AK district of Warsaw, to launch the Warsaw uprising. The council is located at ul. Filtrowa 68, where was once the headquarters of the conspiratorial district of Warsaw district of the Army of the Interior
. 10 in the Park General Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer will begin the ceremonies, during which the dead will be honored in Mokotów, to be completed by "Mokotów March", ie Puławska Street towards Dworkowa Street [19659007] Then, in many places of memory in Warsaw .in. at the monument of General Stefan Rowecki "Grot" (at the corner of F. Chopin and Ujazdowskie Street at 1:15 pm), at the Underground Polish State Monument and the Army of the Interior (St. Wiejska, 14)
h. 16 will begin ceremony at Powązki Military Cemetery, where flowers will be placed on the grave of General Antoni Chrusciel "Montera"
The prayer at "W" at the Powązki Military Cemetery at the Gloria Monument is the focal point of the celebration of the Warsaw uprising. Victis. The prayer will be led by the Ordinary Military of Bishop Józef Guzdek

. 19.30 at the Polegli monument – An irreligious prayer will be refused at the Wolin insurgency cemetery in Warsaw. After interreligious and public ceremonies, Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, Archbishop of Warsaw will celebrate the Holy Mass
More or less at the same time, Piłsudski Square will sing together insurgent songs (an event broadcast by Polish Television at 8 pm) and at Warsaw Uprising Mount at ul. Bartycka in Czerniakow will be lit a souvenir fireplace. It will burn until October 2 – for 63 days and its ceremonial extinction will end with the celebration of the 74th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.

August 5

That day, 74 years earlier, the Wola massacre began. In the following days, more than 30,000 civilians lost their lives. It is also the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp "Gęsiówka" by soldiers of the battalion "Zośka". The celebrations commemorating this ceremony will begin at 14 at ul. Anielewicza 34.

Whereas at 18 in place of memory at the fork of ul. Leszno et al. Solidarity will pay tribute to the civilian population of Wola at the Memorial of the 50,000 Willers murdered by the Germans during the Warsaw uprising in 1944.

After the celebrations, the March of Remembrance will begin in the streets of Wola towards the cemetery of Warsaw insurgents. 20:30 Light candles at the exhibition "Remember us" dedicated to the victims of the Warsaw Uprising in the Warsaw Insurgent Park in Warsaw
A detailed program of the anniversary is available on Museum of the Warsaw Uprising. * [ad_2]
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