137 Czerniakowska Street. The St. Stephen church.
The church was built in the years 1922-1926 and served as a school chapel.
During the Warsaw Uprising 1944 the Hungarian army organized a hospital there. It is also the place of fierce fights between the insurgents and Germans from August 27 till August 30.
On the church wall one can see the plaques:
- commemorating the soldiers of the First Division of Horse Artillery named after General Józef Bem and the Home Army unit 1703 - the Bem troop;
- in memory of the air force captain Zbigniew Janicki who fell while flying over France in the year 1944 as well as Danuta Janicka, the student of medicine who fell during the Warsaw Uprising.
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