World War II: keep it a history (Poland) | Page 11

There were six extermination camps in Poland. The mass
murder of millions of Jews, Poles and other nations took place
between 1942 and 1944.
On 1 August 1944 The Warsaw Uprising began. It was a major
World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army (AK) to
liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. Germans regrouped and
destroyed the city while defeating the Polish resistance, which
fought for 63 days. The Uprising was the largest single military
effort taken by any European resistance movement of World War II.
The Polish forces as a whole are considered to have been the
4th largest Allied army in Europe.

Miron Białoszewski
a Polish poet, novelist, playwright and a theater actor, wrote a book
in which he says about the Warsaw Uprising. He decided to describe
the events of the uprising after 25 years. He survived the uprising
as a civil. Th