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Warsaw layers

Posted on June 15, 2016 by morselsandscraps

I often encounter the intrusion of the tragedies of WW2 into the present as I walk around Warsaw. In a glass case near the tramstop at Rakowiecka is a tattered list (the original one posted by the Nazis?) of 100 … Continue reading →

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Traces of the past

Posted on April 21, 2016 by morselsandscraps

Everywhere in Warsaw there are traces of the past: the horrible past of World War 2. Everywhere there are memorials and monuments, marking deaths under Nazi occupation. This one seems particularly poignant: only one word – murdered – and the … Continue reading →