Memorial Day of Warsaw civilian Insurgency Population
date:02 October 2024 Editor: Editorial
The Sejm of the Republic of Poland in 2015 established on 2 October the Day of Memory of the civilian Insurgency Population of Warsaw. As recorded in the resolution, "Thanks to the self-sacrifice and full determination of the inhabitants of Warsaw, the Warsaw Uprising lasted 63 days". The Sejm paid tribute to the inhabitants of the Polish capital who "supported the fighting insurgents who offered a sacrifice of life" and to those "who, after the surrender of the Warsaw Uprising, were driven out of the city and passed through the gehenna of concentration camps, slave labour and wanderers."
Besieged City
At the time of the Uprising Warsaw had about 1 million inhabitants. In the fight against the German occupier, about 16,000 soldiers were killed, 130 to 200 1000 civilians were killed. About 1 3rd of the victims were killed by mass murders, which were committed by German troops, which killed about 63 1000 inhabitants of Warsaw Wola in early August 1944. Mass killings on civilians besides occurred in another districts specified as: Służewiec, Mokotów, Marymont, Powiśle, Sadyba, Czerniaków.
Exodus of the inhabitants of Warsaw
After 63 days of combat on 2 October 1944, the command of the Home Army signed with the Germans "The Agreement on the cessation of war in Warsaw". The survivors were driven out. The German military authorities forced the expulsion of civilians from Warsaw to prevent the formation of another anti-German conspiracy in the Polish capital. According to Hitler's orders, Warsaw was to be razed to the ground. About a 1000 Warsawians – civilians and fighting insurgents – remained at the ruins of the capital. They were the alleged Warsaw Robinsons.
August to October 1944 The Germans left a full of over 500,000 inhabitants of Warsaw and surrounding areas. The exiled residents of the capital were sent to the Durchgangslager Transition Camp – Dulag 121 in Pruszków. On 7 August 1944, the first group of 3,000 women and children survived the slaughter of Wola arrived there. Warszawiaks sent to the camp in Pruszków were segregated. any 60,000 people were transported from Dulag 121 to concentration camps in the General Governorate and the 3rd Reich, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenburg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof. Those who, according to the Germans, were able to work were transported to the 3rd Reich for forced labour. The others were located in the localities in the territory of the General Governorate. Warsawers were in tragic surviving conditions. Many died of hunger, sickness, and exhaustion.
Dr Rafał Leśkiewicz/IPN
At the time of the Uprising Warsaw had about 1 million inhabitants. In the fight against the German occupier, about 16,000 soldiers were killed, 130 to 200 1000 civilians were killed. About 1 3rd of the victims were killed by mass murders, which were committed by German troops, which killed about 63 1000 inhabitants of Warsaw Wola in early August 1944. Mass killings on civilians besides occurred in another districts specified as: Służewiec, Mokotów, Marymont, Powiśle, Sadyba, Czerniaków.
Exodus of the inhabitants of Warsaw
After 63 days of combat on 2 October 1944, the command of the Home Army signed with the Germans "The Agreement on the cessation of war in Warsaw". The survivors were driven out. The German military authorities forced the expulsion of civilians from Warsaw to prevent the formation of another anti-German conspiracy in the Polish capital. According to Hitler's orders, Warsaw was to be razed to the ground. About a 1000 Warsawians – civilians and fighting insurgents – remained at the ruins of the capital. They were the alleged Warsaw Robinsons.
August to October 1944 The Germans left a full of over 500,000 inhabitants of Warsaw and surrounding areas. The exiled residents of the capital were sent to the Durchgangslager Transition Camp – Dulag 121 in Pruszków. On 7 August 1944, the first group of 3,000 women and children survived the slaughter of Wola arrived there. Warszawiaks sent to the camp in Pruszków were segregated. any 60,000 people were transported from Dulag 121 to concentration camps in the General Governorate and the 3rd Reich, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenburg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof. Those who, according to the Germans, were able to work were transported to the 3rd Reich for forced labour. The others were located in the localities in the territory of the General Governorate. Warsawers were in tragic surviving conditions. Many died of hunger, sickness, and exhaustion.
Dr Rafał Leśkiewicz/IPN
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