Wieniawski Faust Fantasy ( Excerpt) Anna Karkowska

Описание: 0:35, 0:48, 1:29, 1:33, 1:35, 1:04, 1:07, 1:08The Warsaw Philharmonic, designed by Karol Kozłowski and opened in 1901, was meant to rival in beauty the opera house opened five years earlier in Lwów 1:42 (since 1340 Poland; after 1945 the USSR, since 1991 Ukraine), designed by Zygmunt Gorgolewski (1:12).Warsaw was also Henryk Wieniawski's town and in 1935 his nephew organized Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition
In the photos (2:35), we see Marszałkowska Street before Hitler’s intervention and the almost bunker-like building (4:08), opened in 2025 as the Museum of Modern Art .
From the crowds on Marszałkowska (2:54), we see beloved film stars: Eugeniusz Bodo (2:18) and Helena Grossówna. Eugeniusz Bodo, a star of Polish cinema, was arrested in 1940 by the Russians in deceitfully occupied Polish Lwów and sent to Siberia along with 2 million other Poles. The Russians refused him amnesty in 1941. Loved by millions of Poles, Eugeniusz Bodo died in Siberia in 1943 from exhaustion caused by forced labor, cold, and hunger. Helena Grossówna 4:18 who dazzled with her beauty, grace, and talent, served during the occupation as an officer of the Home Army (AK) in Warsaw. Working as a waitress in a restaurant reserved for Germans, she gathered intelligence on German troop movements, which the AK passed on to British intelligence. During the Warsaw Uprising, she commanded the women’s battalion “Sokół.”
Out of more than 1,200,000 inhabitants of Warsaw in 1939, 700,000 were murdered during six years of WWII through the brutal policies of SS secret police chief Ludwig Hahn. The capital of Poland was blown up after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising in November 1944.
After signing the terms of capitulation of the Warsaw Uprising on October 2, 1944 — in which General Bor-Komorowski stipulated, among other things, that the city should no longer be destroyed — the Germans began the systematic liquidation of Warsaw with extraordinary precision. Although they signed the document, they did not honor its provisions and carried out the brutal destruction of Chopin’s city
Percentage of Warsaw’s destruction in 1944–1945:
Warsaw Uprising (August 1 – October 2, 1944):
During the Uprising, the Germans burned and destroyed parts of the city during the fighting. It is estimated that only about 10–15% of the buildings were partially destroyed during the Uprising itself.
After the capitulation on October 2, 1944, and due to the lack of assistance to the insurgents from the Red Army, which had been stationed on the opposite bank of the Vistula since July 30, 1944, the Germans carried out total destruction.

The destruction of Warsaw reached approximately 93% of its buildings.

The chief architect of the systematic destruction of Warsaw was SS Ludwig Hahn, head of the German secret police in occupied Warsaw, responsible for terror in Warsaw, for Szucha Avenue, for Pawiak prison, for deportations from the Umschlagplatz shown in the Oscar-winning film The Pianist, for the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, and for the planned blowing up and burning of buildings after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising (he was jointly responsible with SS Stroop for burning buildings in the Warsaw Ghetto and for blowing up the Great Synagogue in 1943).

SS Hahn never answered for his crimes in Warsaw or in Kraków, where in 1939 he arrested all the professors of the Jagiellonian University

For fighting Hitler, for over 8 million victims, for Auschwitz, for Pawiak, for creating the largest organized resistance movement in Europe (the Home Army), for the participation of Polish pilots in the Battle of Britain, for the participation of Polish sailors in the D-Day operation, and for Monte Cassino — Poland was “rewarded” in 1945 by being deprived of nearly HALF of its 1939 territory.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Poland was represented by Soviet lawyers because Stalin feared that information might surface about the murder of 23,000 Poles in Katyn and the deportation of 2 million Poles to Siberia.

In 1771, just before the partitions, the territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was approximately : 733,000 km²- the biggest country in Europe
Area of Poland after partitions- 1918-1938/1939: approximately 388,634 km² (1:54).
Polish Territory taken by the USSR in 1945:
The Eastern Borderlands (Kresy Wschodnie): Lwów (with natural gas and oil), Wilno, Grodno, Volhynia, Polesie, Tarnopol, — approximately 178,000 km².

Stalin took 46% of the territory of the Second Polish Republic — nearly half the country, counting only eastern losses and kept not his Krolewiec which historically was Polish and then Stalin added 100,000 km² that was not his including Gdańsk but Gdańsk even in 1939 had been a Free City .
This was accompanied since 1939
– mass deportations
– the murder of elites (Katyń)
– the administrative change of the nationality of the Polish population of the Eastern Borderlands by decree