Uprising Leader Home at Last ; Chrusciel Reburied in Warsaw
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › August 02, 2004
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WARSAW, Poland - The remains of the revered leader of a doomed 1944 revolt against Poland's Nazi occupiers were finally laid to rest Friday in Warsaw, brought from the United States for a ceremonial funeral as part of 60th anniversary observances of the uprising.
Antoni Chrusciel was chief of the Home Army resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and commanded the thousands of largely teenage insurgents who rose up against the Germans on Aug. 1, 1944.See the full content of this document
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Uprising Leader Home at Last ; Chrusciel Reburied in Warsaw
He led 63 days of fighting, until the resistance gave way to the better-armed enemy. Some 200,000 Poles, including 20,000 insurgen...
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