Polish newsreel (1944-1955)

Views of streets and squares of ruined Warsaw after its liberation in January 1945. Head of a stone lion.

Remains of a ruined building.

Damaged building of one of the Catholic cathedrals.

Half-ruined building.

Concrete pillbox in front of the ruined building.

Inscription on the base of the building in German: "Adolf Hitler Square".

Tram car among the ruins.

Inscription on the tram in Polish: "For Germans only".

View of part of the ruined historic building.

Pedestal of the destroyed monument.

Memorial plaque in honor of Tadeusz Kosciuszko on the wall of the ruined building.

Memorial plaque in honor of composer Frederic Chopin between the openings with broken windows.

View of one of the ruined buildings (top to bottom).

Surviving residents of Warsaw with belongings on their shoulders climb through the ruins.

A woman cries, standing near a pile of construction debris.

A man with his belongings is half lying on broken bricks.

Children liberated from Auschwitz roll up their sleeves to show the camp numbers tattooed on their arms.

Faces of liberated prisoners.

Doctors examine children liberated from a concentration camp.

Soviet troops fight on the outskirts of Warsaw in 1944. View of part of a destroyed city block (top).

Monument to Soviet soldiers-liberators in Poland.

Inscription on the pedestal of the monument.

The names of Soviet soldiers who died liberating Poland.

Local residents light memorial candles at a military cemetery, scouts stand in an honor guard.

People stand at the graves.

Memorial candles lit around the graves.

The face of a girl.

Crosses on one of the military memorials in Poland.

Memorial candles are burning, people are in the cemetery at night, a woman places a candle on a grave (alternation).

The face of a soldier standing in an honor guard.

Residents of Warsaw march in columns, with an orchestra, to a clean-up day to clear rubble and restore the city from ruins.

A view of one of Warsaw's streets during the clearing of construction waste.

Women carry pieces of concrete slabs.

Women read notices pasted on the side of a wrecked tram car.

Work to clear rubble from the city streets.

Workers unload new equipment.

An equipment fitter at work.

A panorama of a railway depot during the restoration and repair of the contact network.

Repair of tram cars.

Installation of equipment in a workshop of an industrial enterprise (above).

Soviet officers and Polish engineers discuss the current issue of restoring one of the factories.

Construction of new houses, views of construction sites.

Manual unloading of cars with grain sent from the USSR. Loaders pass buckets of grain along a chain (above).

Faces of workers.

Installation of power plant equipment with the help of the Soviet military.