World War II in Warsaw

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Once home to some 250,000 volumes and priceless art artifacts, this Polish estate was a target of bombing during World War II.

These plaques found across Warsaw commemorate the sites where executions or battles took place during the German occupation.

A bronze replica of an elm tree that honors the victims that perished in Pawaik Prison.

The final resting place of more than 200,000 people, this is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.

The final resting place of the last "gypsy king" of Poland.

These 18th-century paintings of Warsaw were used to reconstruct the city after World War II.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.