| Postcards of the Past |
| Warsaw |
| Warsaw is of course the capital city of Poland and is its largest city and the nation’s economic, cultural and educational hub. Situated in Mazowieckie province, in east-central Poland, the city spans the Wisla (Vistula) River. By the end of World War II, roughly 85% of the city lay in ruins and most of the population had been killed, deported or sent to concentration camps. More than a third of Warsaw’s pre-war population was Jewish, although there are hardly any traces of this heritage remaining, as the city’s prosperous Jewish community was decimated by the end of the war. Much of Warsaw’s historic centre was painstakingly recreated in the years after World War II, in a move by the communist authorities which surprised the citizens of the city as it much as it did the West. The postcards on this website are historically important as they show buildings which either no longer exist or which were recreated after the war. |
| The Faubourg de Cracow. |
| The King Sigismund Monument. |
| The Copernicus Monument. |
| Part of the Old City. |
| The Grand Theatre. |
| Two postcards of the Iron Bridge. |
| Nowy Zjazd Street - what is happening here ? is this a street market ? |
| St Anna's Church. |
| Krasinski Place. |
| Vilanow Castle. |
| The Summer Theatre at Lazienkj Park. |
| The former Royal castle. This building was totally destroyed during WW2 and has since been rebuilt. |
| Warsaw Town Hall. |
| The Saxe Gardens. |
| Ul. Marszalkowska. |
| An excellent postcard of the Hotel Bristol in Warsaw. |
| The Royal Palace. |
| The Teatr Wielki. |
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| A postcard showing the destruction of the Poniatowski Bridge. David Brown has told us that the bridge was destroyed in both World Wars, and that this postcard shows the damage inflicted in 1915. Thanks David ! |
| Petersburski Station. |
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| Did You Know........that Marie Curie the physicist and chemist who was awarded two Nobel prizes, was born in Warsaw in 1867 ? |
