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Untitled (St Augustine church 1)

Żmijewski, Artur (1966 - )

One of the two black- and-white shots (the second is MPOLIN-M1051) taken with a wide-angle lens, showing the side elevation of the St Augustine church. This Catholic church, built of clinker brick with a soaring 70 metre neo-Romanesque tower (for many years the highest in Warsaw), was built at the end of the 19th century. During the Second World War, it found itself in the area of the Warsaw Ghetto. Its premises served in the years 1941–1942 as the seat of the New Chamber Theatre founded by Andrzej Marek, a convert. The church was closed, but the parish priest Fr. Franciszek Garncarek and the vicar Fr. Leon Więckowicz stayed on its premises – they were later both murdered by the Germans for helping Jews. After the liquidation of the ghetto, the church was turned into a warehouse for property looted from the Jewish population, and later on converted into a stable. During the Warsaw Uprising the tower was partially damaged; after the uprising the building was partially burnt down, but its basic structure survived the war as one of the few buildings in the Muranów district.

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Information about the object
Author / creator
Żmijewski, Artur (1966 - )
Object type
photography
Time of creation / dating
21st century
Place of creation
Warszawa (mazovian province)
Technique
digital photograph
Material
unknown
Keywords
Copyright status
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Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
MPOLIN-M1050
Localization
The object is not currently on display