Praga '44 exhibition - the unknown story of the Warsaw Uprising on the right bank of the Vistula.
The outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising divided Warsaw along the Vistula line. The history of the city from August 1944 to January 1945 is two separate but related stories. Fighting on the right bank lasted only a few days. When the uprising was dying down in left-bank Warsaw in September, the Russians entered Praga. In the shadow of danger and repression by the security services, life began to revive. The Praga '44 exhibition presents the little-known history of the four-day uprising and shows how, in the shadow of the ongoing battles, everyday life went on in the frontline city.
There is so little information about the uprising in Praga that sometimes one might even get the impression that there was no fighting on the right bank. However, the insurgents in Praga fought just as fiercely as their comrades on the left bank of the Vistula. Without taking their story into account, the picture of the August events remains incomplete.