85% of the buildings on the left-bank of the river are destroyed. Józef Sigalin, one of the chief architects of Warsaw’s reconstruction, wrote about Nowy Świat Street in January 1945 stating that what ...

A meeting place that we can conventionally call a 'barbershop', but we all know there's more to it. Selected spreads from the photobook Warszawa 1945 (Warsaw 1945). Photographs: Leonard Sempoliński, ...