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Community-based
Efforts
The BOS Archives are significant in their scope and volume, having
great credibility of the reconstruction and importance for Poles'
cultural and national identity. Like "The whole nation is building
its capital," a phrase commonly used at the time, BOS employed
about 1,500 people - architects, town planners, engineers of various
specialties, economists, and lawyers in July 1945. In the fall of
1945, nearly 10,000 people worked on construction sites under the
supervision of BOS, showing considerable participation. The archives
demonstrate an outstanding example of how an entire community,
original form.
a nation, inputted effort to restore its central place of history to its
Restored
as Once Before
Approximately 550,000 inhabitants were forced from the city,
and the total cost of the Warsaw destruction is estimated to be
around 16.3 billion zlotys . In 1939, there were 987 monuments
◆
in Warsaw. 64 monuments managed to last while all 141
monuments with exceptional value to Poland and Warsaw failed
to survive. Out of 86 churches, 25 were completely destroyed,
and 57 were heavily damaged. Due to the enormous damage in
Warsaw, the abbreviation BOS was also deciphered jokingly as
"Boże Odbuduj Stolicę - God Rebuild the Capital." The creation
◆ of an entirely new, post-war doctrine of monument protection
The state budget of the Poland (1938/1939) ◆◆ , that monuments
was 2.5 billion zlotys was formulated by Professor Zachwatowicz
Jan Zachwatowicz (1900-1983), Architect.
◆◆ and the nation are one. Although destroyed by war, heritage
Co-director of the Warsaw Reconstruction monuments must be faithfully rebuilt to restore their social
place. Warsaw became a reference for reconstructing Moscow
Remembrance churches and Kyiv and Dresden's historical buildings.
of Liberty and
Sovereignty
Warsaw became a place - a symbol referred to as
the "untamed city," the only one in which the Jewish
population confined in the ghetto opposed the
invaders (1943). In 1944 The Warsaw Uprising was the
most prominent and most extended (63 days) battle
between the underground units (polish homeland
Army) and the regular units of the German army. It is
estimated that 200,000 people died in the pacification,
during and after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising in
1944. The restoration of Warsaw is a living example of
overcoming the scars of war and a way to remember
and honor those who fought for freedom and liberty.