Warsaw Uprising (1944)

Warsaw insurgents fight in the streets of the city during the Warsaw Uprising in August-October 1944. Insurgents in their positions.

A view of burning historic buildings in Warsaw.

German punitive forces throw grenades into the basement of one of the houses and burn it out with a flamethrower.

A view of a burning building.

Insurgents take German collaborators, SS men, and Wehrmacht officers prisoner, drive them out of the basements, and lead them away under escort.

German soldiers and officers surrender after a street fight.

Residents of Warsaw watch from broken windows as German soldiers are taken prisoner.

Insurgents drive a column of German prisoners with their hands raised along a street in Warsaw.

Insurgents demonstrate small arms taken as trophies.

A photograph of one of the units of the Home Army (AK).

Insurgents fire a rifle salute over the grave of a fallen comrade.

Crosses on the graves of the fallen participants of the uprising.

Insurgents at the graves of their fallen comrades.

People run across the street, hiding behind the parapet from bullets (panorama).

A street puppet theater performance during a break between battles.

Children watching a puppet show (panorama).

Teenage participants in the uprising enter the basement of a building.

The national flag of Poland above one of the barricades in Warsaw.

Children and teenagers on the barricade.

Insurgents read newspapers, hiding behind the barricade.

A fighter runs through a ditch dug across the street.

Insurgents on one of the city streets.

Views of burning buildings, insurgents putting out fires.

Caring for the wounded in a hospital located in the basement of one of the houses.

Faces of wounded civilians of Warsaw.

A stream of water gushing from a damaged water main on one of the streets of Warsaw.

A queue for water (panorama, from above).

People with buckets and other containers stand in line waiting for water.

Insurgents pump water from a column.

People carry buckets of water home and to their positions.

A man reads a book while sitting on the sidewalk.

View from an attic window.

An insurgent sniper in position in the attic.

View of a railway junction.

Insurgent commanders at an observation post, including Tadeusz Komorowski.

Movement of German armored vehicles.

Insurgents fire from the basement of a building.

View of one of the industrial enterprises during street fighting.

Panorama of a part of a city block (from above).

Barricades on the streets of Warsaw.

Insurgents at one of the intersections.

Broadcasting a radio address to the street from a window of a house.

Insurgents escort captured Germans and their accomplices.

Faces of prisoners.

Views of Warsaw streets during street fighting.

Insurgents fighting inside a church.

Rebels fire at the enemy from holes in the walls and broken windows.

Germans captured by the rebels, German soldiers being captured.

Rebels practicing fencing.

Armed rebels in German helmets pass by.

Rebel small arms.

Rebels in formation on one of the streets of Warsaw (panorama).

View of the church building damaged by shell fragments.

Rebels approach the canal.

Rebels bathing in the canal.

Rebels tidy themselves up during a break in the fighting, shave, change their underwear.

Panorama of one of the city squares.

Lowering military cargo by parachute.

Rebels fold the parachute, disassemble the weapons delivered by air.

Photograph of a rebel mortar crew.

Rebels march in formation, carrying the delivered weapons and ammunition.

Insurgents on the streets of Warsaw during street fighting, views of streets and destroyed buildings.

Residents of the city run along the street, fleeing from German troops and punitive forces, a captured tank moves towards them.

Insurgents in positions near breaches in the walls of buildings.

View of destroyed streets of Warsaw, German armored vehicles, taken by the insurgents as trophies, drive by.