The Warsaw Uprising 1944 – Exhibition
 
October 30, 2024 – March 31, 2025, free admission
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus (GHH), Bismarckstraße 90, 40210 Düsseldorf
Opening: 30.10.2024, 6 PM
An exhibition for Warsaw Week, on the occasion of the anniversary program 35 years of Düsseldorf-Warsaw partnership https://www.duesseldorf.de/internationales/partnerschaften/warschau/warschau-week-2024

The exhibition shows the dramatic fate of Warsaw – a city that was affected by the brutality of the German extermination machine like hardly any other during World War II. It begins with a presentation of Warsaw in the pre-war period; the following sections show occupied Warsaw – the German policy towards the Polish population, also towards the Jewish citizens, the decisions in the Nazi state, street terror, the emergence of the ghetto, the living conditions, and the cultural activities that developed under extreme conditions.

Warsaw is also presented as the capital of the Polish underground state, its structures, administration, media, educational system, Żegota (Polish Council for Aid to Jews, the only state organization of its kind in Europe during World War II). The military and the actions carried out by the Home Army are also shown. The highlight of the exhibition is the Warsaw Uprising in all its complexity. At the end of this section, the film “City of Ruins” will be shown, depicting the razed and destroyed Warsaw. The final part of the exhibition shows the reborn city, a phenomenon of post-war reconstruction, rising from the ruins and today a modern and dynamic metropolis.

Organizer: State capital Düsseldorf, State Chancellery NRW, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus, Warsaw Rising Museum, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Polish Institute Düsseldorf and the City of Warsaw.

See: https://www.g-h-h.de/veranstaltung/ausstellung-warschau-phoenix-aus-der-asche