Warsaw Uprising Recollections - 81st Anniversary of the Conflagration of Warsaw 2025, 17.00 August 1st.1944
Today (5.00 pm August 1st 2025) I will watch the extraordinarily moving and symbolic commemoration of the Warsaw Uprising on television simultaneously in the many ceremonial venues (including boats on the Vistula) of the Warszawa Pamieta. Someone once asked me to express the nature of Poland in one word. I replied 'Resistance' . Such was the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The conflagration of Warsaw 17.00 August 1st.1944 The abandoned.... The valiant men... This uprising must never be forgotten and will not be despite the indelible controversy surrounding it This is also a nation of truly remarkable Polish women Independent, powerful, determined, loyal, intelligent, courageous, and beautiful... And their children..... Chapter 4 ' Warsaw the Phoenix ' from A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland by Michael Moran (Granta, London 2009) English version (Version in Pol...