Polish novelist Maria Dąbrowska, who returned to the capital in February 1945, wrote about her feelings in My First Walk Around Warsaw: I stand with tears in my eyes for a long time, my thoughts are ...

They are the first recorded photos of Warsaw’s ruins. In the chapter of Ruins of Warsaw devoted to Porębski, Łukasz Gorczyca explains: At the time, the 25-year-old photographer manifested ...