Warsaw, Poland - View Through My Lenses

in September 1939, Warsaw was bombarded by German Luuftwaffe,  under siege for 27 days with thousands killed or starved. This is resurrected city from ashes.

New office towers in Warsaw at Emilii Plater Street, Warsaw, Poland

Warsaw before World War II, it had been a parklike city, a picture postcard of old-world Central European architecture on a human scale.

No other city in Europe, not even Berlin or Stalingrad, was taken down so methodically. Today Warsaw truly resurrected from ashes!

Hitler ordered Warsaw to be physically erased which Germans systematically turn this heroic city into ruins.

Marszalkowska street, one of the most central places of Warsaw city center and very close to all business, shopping, cultural dining and entertainment venues. Poland

Palace of Culture and Science (in Polish a.k.a. PKiN) is visible sign of the brutal past of Soviet domination of Poland.

Rebuilt Poniatowski Bridge (has suffered much during the World Wars). Warsaw, Poland

Viaduct on Poniatowski Bridge, Warsaw, Poland

Vistula River, Warsaw, Poland

Palace of Culture and Science (in Polish a.k.a. PKiN)....Poles called this ugly oversize wedding cake - as a fraternal gift from the Soviet people !

Palace of Culture and Science (in Polish a.k.a. PKiN) - ugly Socialist realism statue ...Most hated building in Warsaw.

Part of Wislostrada at midd-morning hours...one of the major transit roads going through Warsaw, Poland

National Stadium seen from Wislostrada near Old Town, Warsaw, Poland

Graffiti - (Poniatowski Bridge), Warsaw, Poland

Jelonki district - here workers from the former Soviet Union lived during 3 years while the Palace (PKiN) was built in early 1950s...

Jelonki district- today some thirty houses are left....Warsaw, Poland

Spring walk in Isabelin-Laski forest, Warsaw, Poland

Smolensk plane crash memorial at Powazki Military Cemetery, Warsaw.A large delegation of VIPs crashed near a military airfield in Smolensk killing all on board.

Memorial for Political Prisoners sent to work in coal and uranium mines during 1949-1959. Powazki Military Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland.

Powazki Cemetery a.k.a. Stare Powazki, it is the most famous cemetery in the city, and one of the oldest. Warsaw, Poland

Palace in Falenty near Warsaw. Many years ago, one of my favorite bike riding place. Once summer residence for Przezdziecki then Czetwertynski families.

Falenty, here are located several large commercial fish ponds, which have been here since Tsarist days. Near Warsaw, Poland

Back in Warsaw.  A historic Hotel Europejski originally opened in 1857, the hotel was almost completely destroyed in World War II.

View (from Pilsudski Square, previously Victory Square) towards Holy Cross church at Krakowskie Przedmiescie a.k.a. Royal Route, Warsaw, Poland

View of Pilsudski Square from Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland.

Varsovians reclaimed a bit of their history by painfully recreating, stone by stone, the beautiful Old Town section. Warsaw, Poland