The surrounding houses are silent witnesses of Polish history. This occurs not only in large cities, but even in local villages and towns. present we would like to present to you the past of St. Wojciech's Church in Warsaw Wola.
The tragic destiny of St. Wojciech's Church in Warsaw. The temple was established in the late 19th century. The initiator of its construction was Fr Władysław Siewierski. The church became a mute witness to the tragedy of the Polish nation during planet War II. During the 1939 Polish campaign, the building was the mark of artillery firing and German aviation attacks. During barbaric German raids the roof, tower, all stained glass windows and organs were destroyed.
During the Warsaw Uprising, the church became a place of tragedy of the civilian population during the so-called. “The slaughter of Will”. It is considered to be the most crucial individual massacre of civilians in Europe during planet War II and the largest individual crime committed in past in the Polish nation.
August 2, 1944 The Germans imprisoned in the church the first groups of exiled Warsawans. The temple became a transitional camp for the civilian inhabitants of the Polish capital. There were selections before being shot or shipped to German concentration camps.
Three days later (i.e. 5 August 1944) The Germans removed all the men from the church and shot them in the church square. In general, respective 100 people were shot in the vicinity of the church during the Warsaw Uprising. A full of nearly 90,000 inhabitants of the capital passed through this temple.
In the church, German soldiers plundered, raped, and executed Warsaw residents. The deficiency of human position on the needs of the civilian population by the Germans was their decision that they did not let the exiled to leave the church, so they had to deal with physiological needs inside the building.
Among the murdered victims were: Fr Tadeusz Jachimowski, who was the chief chaplain of the AK and six paramedics and AK liaisons taken prisoner in Powiśle Czerniakowski and shot on September 24, 1944. In the courtyard of the church, there was besides the shooting of an full branch of the AK, whose members were taken prisoner in Czerniakow.
The past of this church entering the tragic past of the Polish people clearly shows how close we are to the forgotten images of the past of our Homeland. All we request to do is look around us, and we will see the actual past of Poland with its beautiful and tragic cards.
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