Every year on August 1st, the Warsaw Uprising is
commemorated throughout Poland.
In Warsaw, the entire city shuts down at 5pm and sirens are
sounded throughout the city to recognize the Poles’ valiant fight to reclaim
their country from the Nazis.
Hundreds of kilometres away, the city of Krakow also stops.
Gathering around the statue of Polish poet,
Adam Mickiewicz – a statue which was destroyed by the Nazis during the war -
hundreds of Poles meet in the city’s main square to light flares and sing
Polish anthems, banding together to show unity and pledge allegiance to their
country.
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