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Prudential House and other ruined buildings in Warsaw; citizens clearing rubble in Warsaw, Poland.
View near the Napoleon Square (Plac Napoleona) in Warsaw, Poland (later Warsaw Insurgents Square) soon after the end of World War 2. Sunset view toward Świętokrzyska Street, of the (then) tallest building in Poland: The gutted Prudential Insurance Company building or "Prudential House" (which was later rebuilt as the Hotel Warszawa). View of men and women clearing rubble of buildings in Warsaw, Poland. Ruins of buildings. Men and women citizens clearing rubble of the ruined buildings. Men at work in the area using large sledgehammers to break rubble into smaller pieces for transport. A woman carrying a stack of bricks among the ruins of the building. Several men at work in the rubble of buildings.
Ruined buildings outside Warsaw, and the first memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in Poland
Scenes shortly after the end of World War 2. View of the mostly cleared rubble and ruins in Warsaw, Poland, near the intersection of Anielewicza Street, Karmelicka Street, Lewartowskiego Street and Zamenhofa Street in the devastated Warsaw Ghetto district of Muranów, near where the first armed clash of the uprising occurred. Two soldiers walk by on a sidewalk beside the round memorial on the street corner. A truck is parked on an intersecting street. There are mostly open sight lines into the distance with all buildings having been destroyed. A horse cart moves along the road. A jeep with soldiers pass along the road. Closer views of the first memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (also later called the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes), designed by Leon Suzin. Views of the inscription on the stone memorial, dated April 19,1946, and commemorating Polish Jews who fought against German military forces in World War 2. Translated, it reads, "To those who fell in an unprecedented and heroic struggle for the dignity and freedom of the Jewish people, for a free Poland, and for the liberation of mankind. Polish Jews." Some flowers laying at the memorial site. (The round 1946 memorial tablet, with its shape symbolizing the underground manholes used during the uprising, was later incorporated into the larger Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, sculpted by Nathan Rapoport and unveiled in 1948.)
German prisoners of war clear rubble of damaged buildings in ghetto of Warsaw, Poland.
German prisoners of war in Warsaw, Poland. Ruins of Warsaw ghetto buildings. Polish carts moving on a road. The ruins and rubble of various buildings. Two men stand and talk on a road. Ruined structures along the side of the road. German prisoners of war are led along a road by an officer. The prisoners with shovels on their shoulders stand in loose formation on a road. The prisoners moving along the road. An armed guard follows behind the prisoner work crew as they march to a location. The prisoners clearing the rubble of the buildings with shovels. A soldier holding a gun looks at the prisoners. The prisoners at work.
German prisoners of war working on a railroad line and ruined buildings in view in Warsaw, Poland.
German prisoners of war in the destroyed former Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. German prisoners of war work on the site of a railroad line beside new railroad tracks. Various views of the prisoners working. A soldier holding a gun watches the prisoners working. Ruined buildings in view near the line.
Polish troops marching and singing and the troops clearing ruins of buildings in Warsaw, Poland.
The garrison of Warsaw cleaning rubble from World War 2 in Warsaw, Poland. Ruins of many buildings. The soldiers of the garrison of Warsaw marching along a road beside the ruins. Soldiers holding shovels marching on a road and singing. The top portion of a destroyed building. The troops with shovels on their shoulders lined up along a road. They walk along the road. The soldiers remove their over coats and then fan out atop a pile of rubble. Rubble of buildings in the background. The soldiers at work in the area with the shovels. The soldiers at work beside a truck. They load the rubbish and debris onto the truck. Ruined buildings along the side of the road.
Men and women at work on the tram line crossing Ghetto and ruins of buildings in Warsaw, Poland.
Construction of a tram line in Warsaw, Poland soon after World War 2. Ruins of buildings. Men work to clear rubble of the buildings. A horse cart waits to be loaded with rubbish. A sign board with location name "Ul. Brhaterow Ghetta" beside the ruined buildings. Several men and women work at the tram line crossing Ghetto. Ruins of buildings beside the area of the tram line. Men and women working at the tram line.