Name day: Maria, Gwidon
Sunrise 6:21 am; sunset 7:15 pm; average air temperature: 19°C
Cloudy; Vistula river level: 70 cm



          In view of the Soviet and Polish forces advancing on Praga, General von dem Bach is striving to seize the whole west bank of the Vistula River as quickly as possible.

          The German command stops all the military operations in the other districts of Warsaw in order to put all the pressure on Czerniaków. Large forces, supported by heavy fire, are storming Powiśle Czerniakowskie.
          There are heavy fights taking place over the port in Czerniaków, the building of the Social Insurance Institution on Czerniakowska Street and the Gas Factory on Ludna Street.
          The insurgents manage to keep the Port, but they lose the west part of Łazienkowska Street to the enemy.
          The Germans storm the premises of the Gas Factory on Ludna. They also capture the building at 7 Książęca Street.

          All German assaults in Sielce are repelled.

          In the evening the enemy captures a part of the escarpment from Frascati to Książęca Streets. Only an outpost located in the building of YMCA on Konopnicka Street is still in Polish hands.

          In the meantime in Śródmieście the initiative is taken by the insurgents. They carry out numerous sorties to harry the German positions in the area of Aleje Jerozolimskie, the Main Post Office and the west section of the sub-district.

          On the night of September 13, two People's Army female messengers, Helena Jaworska "Helena" and Janina Balcerzak "Ewa", manage to swim across the Vistula River to its west bank, where they are received by General Michał Rola-Żymierski and Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky.

          As water scarcity in wells dug out in Warsaw backyards is becoming more and more severe, Colonel Antoni Chruściel "Monter" ("Assembler") determines water collection hours.

edited by: Maciej Janaszek-Seydlitz

translated by: Beata Murzyn