Warsaw Uprising

Warsaw Uprising

English

Warsaw Uprising soldiers

Proper noun

the Warsaw Uprising

1. (historical) a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

   For Poles, the Warsaw Uprising is one of the several exceptionally painful tragedies that indelibly stamp Poland’s struggle for survival from its extinction from Europe’s political map in the Third Partition of 1795 to its independence in 1989.

Translations

millitary operation

Chinese: Mandarin: 华沙起义 (zh) Czech: varšavské povstání n Dutch: Opstand van Warschau (nl) n Finnish: Varsovan kansannousu French: insurrection de Varsovie f German: Warschauer Aufstand m

Greek: εξέγερση της Βαρσοβίας f (exégersi tis Varsovías) Japanese: ワルシャワ蜂起 Polish: powstanie warszawskie n Portuguese: Revolta de Varsóvia f Russian: Варшавское восстание n (Varšavskoje vosstanije) Swedish: Warszawaupproret n