Polish Atlantis (pre-war Warsaw, Poland in pictures).

I have always been surprised how the stained glass windows in Bracia Jabłkowscy's Department Store survived the German rape of Warsaw.

Located in central Warsaw at Bracka 25, designed by Franciszel Lilpop and karol Jankowski in 1913, it survived WW2 and was 'nationalised' as the 'Central Department Store' (Centralny Dom Tomarowy) then became a shoe store 'Dom Obuwia'.

The beautiful series of architectural features, the largest 'post secessionist' stained glass window in Warsaw and bas-reliefs by Bartłomeijcyk are worth checking out.

The store has within it several shopping levels, with trendy cafes, bookstores, chic boutiques and music shops.

You mean the building that's mostly the Traffic bookshop.

Quite a few buildings round that part of the centre survived. By the time the German army got to dealing with that part of town, supplies of explosive materiel were beginning to run very low, and eventually they even stopped using petrol in order to conserve it for evacuations and retreat. Hence the number of Seccessionist buildings that survived in the southern part of the centre and the top end of Mokotów.

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Pre-war Warsaw. Colourised and HQ

youtu.be/E0hlKsZdnhI

Very nostalgic :)

Beautiful. All razed to the ground by the barbarians... :(

Never forget.

Yup. Foreigners destroy everything.

Have you seen this one?

youtu.be/igv038Pqr34

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Looking for pre-war pictures of Lysow (Lisow) (Kielce-Lysow )

I'm doing some research on some of the lesser known battles of Poland and am looking for some pre-war pictures of Lisow or any in the Kielce-Lysow area. I have plenty of battle maps and current Google Earth pictures but I would like to know what it looked like before the battle. The village of Lisow was destroyed in the fighting and was more than likely rebuilt to look more modern. Is there any website that might have any pictures? Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

@zabrapolish, here's an interesting site about this battle with photos (the author wrote a book about it):

m.facebook.com/Tropem-pancernych-boj%C3%B3w-Lis%C3%B3w-Morawica-Radomice-112624960297814/

And here:

m.facebook.com/Kielce-1945-75-lecie-bitwy-pancernej-Lis%C3%B3w-Morawica-Kielce-105835517618716/?__tn__=CH-R


From what I've read the church was badly damaged, but wasn't destroyed entirely. My mother told me that we were driving through Lisów when going from Kielce to my grandma in the countryside, so the village is still there (I don't know how much of it was rebuilt though).

I haven't found any pre-war photos yet, but I'll post it if I find anything. Btw, a Polish forum about WWII would probably be a good place to ask about such stuff - there should be some people who know English there: dws.org.pl