I highly recommend visiting the Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego (Warsaw Uprising Museum). You can learn a lot about what happend during the war, you can see what post-war Warsaw looked like, you can experience walking through the sewers... It is intense. It makes you realize what war really is. It was such an extreme experience for me, I cried a lot there.

@trustmenow.

2 жыл бұрын

This is the first thing I’m thinking about

@thetoster7

2 жыл бұрын

And also Auschwitz in Oświęcim to have whole perspective of war.

@Jakubs_ya_man

Жыл бұрын

Im pretty sure my great aunt who died at the age of 100 a few years ago was a part of the uprising at the age of 20 something and served as a nurse, i also had a great grandfather who died in a russian camp and was awarded a bronze cross of honour after death

To fully understand what war did to Poland and Warsaw, you can visit 4 museums: 1. Warsaw Uprising Museum (especially Miasto Ruin clip). 2. Polin - museum of history of Jews in Poland. 3. World War II museum in Gdańsk. 4. Europejskie Centrum Solidarności in Gdańsk (about post war history and road to freedom from USSR). All are modern, interactive and very interesting, you wont get bored ;)

@krzysztofchamera7055

2 жыл бұрын

100%

@zov_fotografia

2 жыл бұрын

Wołyn movie. Miasto 44, movie.

@Karol-ip6vx

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, WW2 museum in Gdansk is worth to visit

@DarivSis1

2 жыл бұрын

... and Aushwitz Concentration Camps in Oswiecim

@radoslew

2 жыл бұрын

@@DarivSis1 like... how he could skip it when he were talking about war?? No comment

Don't be shy to cry. Tears wash the soul.

@sophiewitter2275

2 жыл бұрын

the sweetest thing to say wow

We need a lot more Emma. I know you hate making these videos but we just can't get enough of you.

@pawejaroszewicz7893

2 жыл бұрын

Very yes. And face it: U look great:)

I actually wrote music for this amazing film! :) Your reaction was priceless and is a true reward for the whole VRHeroes team! Sending much apprectiation and thank You for promoting the exhibition & encouraging people to watch Kartka! :)

@emmawitter8148

2 жыл бұрын

oh wow i'm so excited you saw this :)) your work in the film is incredible!!

@arturslotwinski

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmawitter8148 Oh, thank you, nice to hear this! :)

Thank you for going there and taking the interest in our tragic history.

Gal, I love how you showed the experiance from the emotional perspective (of you both!). You did it so vivid as if all of us went with you there ♡

@emmawitter8148

2 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️

Good one! Thank you Emmo! Many people in Poland tend to forget that the uprising was more than Warsaw's thing - there were many people 're-settled' during ethnic cleansings in other parts of Poland who came to Warsaw during the war. Plus like many big cities, especially capitals, multinational community was pretty large so for example there was a substantial Slovak and Georgian (from the Caucasus, not the South) participation in the fighting. I am glad there is this Silesian guy in the story. Warsaw is pretty much a phoenix of a city with a number of destructive battles waged in the 1650s, in 1794 (Tadeusz Kościuszko's Uprising - a very interesting person with fascinating American episode in his life), 1831, 1939, 1943 (the Ghetto Uprising) and finally in 1944. Rebuilt every time, stronger than before so has a complicated legacy and identity. I guess I'll quote Terry Pratchett to explain it: 'This, milord, is my family’s axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation … but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.' Take care!

Nie przepraszaj za to, że wzruszyła Cię nasza historia,historia każdego Polaka, historia powstańców, historia "kamieni na szaniec" . Don't apologize for being touched by our history, the history of every Pole, the history of the insurgents, the history of "stones for the rampart".

@marktwain5266

Жыл бұрын

Ok, take a chill pill.

@uwu-mr4lm

Жыл бұрын

@@marktwain5266 what-

@uwu-mr4lm

Жыл бұрын

@@marktwain5266 what do you mean?

@mviz2299

Жыл бұрын

"Sorry" does not only mean to apologise... it also mean to feel distress, unhappy about something. By saying "sorry" english speakers often want to say that they sympathize with other person. I'm explaing this, because "sorry" is translated to "przepraszam" in polish. But "przepraszam" ONLY means "to apologize". "Sorry" in english have A LOT of meanings. I suppose @7vivo didnt know this.

August Agbola O'Brown - the only Black (Nigerian-born) Warsaw Insurgent of 1944 - has a small monument to his honour at Pasaż Wiecha. Warsaw did not forget its Afro-Polish hero. Also, Polish flags are often placed to mark his grave at the Hampstead Cemetery in London.

As sad and tragic as the Warsaw Uprising was, it is uplifting to see you two being able to use the VR experience of participating in the fighting to find ways to relate to your present life in Poland.

This makes me emotional, Im proud of Poland and our history. The Warsaw uprising is why i even exist lol, my grandparents met while fighting in the uprising, So it kind of has a special spot in my life. Sadly after tWarsaw was destroyed, they relocated to southern Poland to Częstochowa.

M My mother was 16 and my father was 19 when the war started. They both were right there during Warsaw uprising with their families. I'm 66 and will never stop thinking about them going through that. My father escaped few times from lapanka until one time he wasn't able and was send to labor camp in Germany where he spent 3 yrs. He escaped from labor camp and Gestapo was looking for him for about 6 months.

Besides the museums, there are also some INSANELY good movies you could watch to give you a better perspective of what was going on in the past in Poland and Warsaw. The Pianist is definitely one of them!

You made me cry during watching. Thank you for your mindfulness for our feelings, for our historical context. You are amazing to me

I'm very glad of you went to the museum to get acquainted with our history. Ps. when you thanked the person who took your "glasses" from you in the museum if I only heard your "dziękuję" in Polish, I would never have guessed that you are not a Pole 🙈

Great job! I'm very pleased that you take also this topic. Never be ashamed because of your tears. You cant smile whole life. Sadness and cry is "catarsis".

Extremely relevant for you to bring it up, especially that just a few hundred miles from Warsaw our neighbours are on the verge of military conflict. Thanks for sharing, I must definitely find time to see that!

The way you wanna get along with polish history, it's so sweet and lovely. Dziękuję Emmo! ♥ Can't wait for another vid. Cheers!

obsessed w ur lil friend. the shots of u filming eachother were really fun and different than ur usual content

@emmawitter8148

2 жыл бұрын

thanks queen xoxo

There is one thing you should definitelly experience here in Poland and this is one of our music festivals - nowadays called Pol'and'Rock, but previously better known as Woodstock Festival. Even if you don't like music festivals or rock music in general (although musically there is something for pretty much anyone), this festival has an atmosphere that you probably won't experience anywhere else. This is probably the only festival in the world where you will find people who have been coming for many years and have never been evn once on any concert before! :D All of this because they come just fot that atmosphere and people, not for music. And it is impossible to get bored there . There is tons of videos here on youtube, such as "Woodstock bez cenzury by Caml/Ostro" from 2012, 2013 or 2015.

@emmawitter8148

2 жыл бұрын

that sounds amazing, i've been wanting to see some live music here!

Guys do you think she already saw "IPNtv: The Unconquered"? I think it would be great to see her reaction. Link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/g2xso82HYcu0ibA.html

From my experience i can recomend u seeing the painting called "Panorama Racławicka" maybe it is not in Warsaw but in Wrocław but IT is realy Worth seeing. It is basicly a freaking huge painting that has Its own building. It shows the realistic view of battle of Racławice whitch maybe wasn't the most important battle in nation history but the fact of winning it was holding Polish People morale for long time. It is realy Worth seeing.

BÓG, HONOR, OJCZYZNA!!! CZEŚĆ I CHWAŁA BOHATEROM!!! We will never forget

I was waiting for a new video and here it is. I love your videos! Keep up the good work.

There is an old palace in Rydz Śmigły Park where during the Warsaw uprising one of the Polish fighters died and his blood soaked into the marble in the staircase and it is there till this day. Personally for me the most vivid historical monument of Warsaw Uprising. Also in many different places around the town you can still find bullet holes in the buildings that were made during the uprising

I hope visit (or should I say "stay"?) in Poland will make you more aware how absurd are some people in the US calling people nazis so often for having a different opinion. I can't stand it, it's so disrespectful to all the people who died fighting the real nazis.

@PaVVroo

2 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear!

@floragoralska4964

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr! Nazis were brainwashed killing machines that were trained to have no remorse to shoot their own dog or drown babies. Using it as an insult is offensive and disrespectful to the victims of their horrible system

@barsorrro

2 жыл бұрын

@@floragoralska4964 Yes, calling somebody a Nazi for no reason is a very stupid and wrongful misappropriation of the term. But what the picture you paint of Nazis can also be ethically harmul. These were not machines and their life was not reduced to just doing harm to others. They were humans like us -- only they were infected by this evil malignant ideology. It is all too easy to be tricked into playing this same insane game of racism and national predilection and say that this was them, the Germans, different people from us -- i.e.: we could never be like that. Oh, yes, we could. Look at what is going on on the Polish Belarus border and you'll see how easily people can be encouraged to throw away whatever humanity they have.

@GarranTana

2 жыл бұрын

@@barsorrro What? The border is exactly that, a border. People can't just come illegally through it. There are legal ways to do it and I have friends from Belarus who did just that.

@barsorrro

2 жыл бұрын

@@GarranTana Yes, a border is a border, a child is a child, a winter night outdoors is a winter night outdoors, and people forcing children out to spend winter nights outdoors are monsters: be them Germans, Russians, Poles or whoever.

During World War II, Poland lost 1/6 of its population. It's as if the USA today had 60 million victims. Thank you that you were interested in our history. In Warsaw, by the way, memorial plaques/monuments are often found on the streets in places where, for example, executions were carried out on civilians during the uprising

wow, it's amazing that you acknowledge the generational trauma living in our country. I don't see that level of awarenesses often. Even polish people tend to deny that what happened during II World War still really affects us nowadays. But it does and will be. Thank for this video Emma 💓

I don't know if you've been in Poland on the 1st of August last year already if you were I am sure you noticed the sirens heard all around the city to mark the beginning of the uprising. The whole city stops for a while people cars everything stops to mark the occasion. It's quite incredible moment to be a part of also.

That is the most touching video of yours .... respect for digging into our harsh history

Perfect video to watch during breakfast

@sophiewitter2275

2 жыл бұрын

LITERALLY, immaculate vibes

If You really want to know, why Poles are speaking all time about history and we still remember it, You have to visit Auschwitz and feel it, against what they had to fight. Unfortunately most of our history is sad and for sure You will be cry. But it's worth it, because without it will be hard to understand Poles. :) Great videos and I'm waiting for more.

@mesi0r

2 жыл бұрын

Auschwitz - once you visit you remember it for the rest of your life

@hasppl9005

2 жыл бұрын

@@mesi0r I went to summer camp to Gdansk when I was 10 yrs old. One day we went for day trip to concentration camp Stutthof/Sztutowo not far from Gdansk (35km). I will never forget what I sow there. It was in my head for many many yrs. Until now 56 yrs later I still can't understand how people can exterminate people in such horrific way.

@FrancescoTotti_

2 жыл бұрын

Albo Majdanek w Lublinie

@FrancescoTotti_

2 жыл бұрын

@@mesi0r albo majdanek w Lublinie

@andymp6856

2 жыл бұрын

You should also visit Concentration Camp for Polish Children in Łódź. We the Poles lost not only flower youth in their twenties but younger children as well. Who knows that? Even majority of the Polish nation does not know about it. Our history was being distorted for half century so the world know the distorted history of Poland, let's say made by comunists.

I saw/experienced this same film some time ago, visiting WWII museum in Gdańsk. I was 4 months pregnant then. I cried like a baby and could not calm myself down for a good hour. It really stays with you, highly recommend to everyone, whether you are interested in history or not.

Emma, it's nice that you want to learn more about Polish history, and that you were moved by watching the drama of Warsaw.

I know I'm a year overdue for this film, but I just want to say that crying about the Warsaw Uprising or any part of our Polish history is nothing to be ashamed of. It means to me as a Pole that you have understood how much we have been through and that is beautiful. Much love to you, just for these tears

You are awesome, Emma. And very pretty too! Thank You for comming Poland, great to have You here. I hope my beloved homeland will never upset You. Have a excellent time here (and I hope You will stay for longer). ❤️ There is so much to see and.. feel in Poland. 🇵🇱

Thank you Emma.

It's incredible how good your polish i getting, Emma :) It's also a very nice feeling to see you getting familiar with our culture and historical baggage. Now you know a little bit better how can entire nation be so grumpy :D

Hey Emma, I highly recommend watching "Warsaw Uprising The Film". It's a movie made out of actual footage from the uprising, using new technologies to restore the film, give colour and sound.

Thank you for empathizing / Dziękuję za współodczuwanie, Emma ❤️🥰

Sorry for not being able to come up with some recommendations referring to that, but I would like to add what I think is an important point. Yes, the Warsaw Uprising was a tragedy -- a huge, unimaginable terror. (And I don't know what the exhibition shows, but I'm kind of worried that it might have been focusing on the heroic military struggle aspect of it, while the real horror, I mean the REAL one, was the suffering and deaths of the civilian population. You know, of all the not-all-so-picturesque people: the old, the disabled, the immobile patients of hospitals: the kind of people who didn't fight and didn't want to fight, but who were thrown into history and made to face their death in flames, under the rubble or simply through deprivation of the assistance required, because a bunch of military folks up top had had a few vague ideas and some pretty sizable illusions). But I wanted to mention a bitter, lasting pain and suffering, and despair that came after that. See, the war didn't end well for us. Nazis lost it, but we haven't won it either. For Poland, what came after the war was not just peace and a gradual recuperation, as one could expect it. What came instead was the submission of our country to the Soviets and the installation of a semi-occupant regime, with the ministries actually staffed in substantial numbers by Russians or Soviet-Russia citizens of Polish descent. And terror -- terror (i.e.: arrests, torture and executions) directed precisely against the kind of people who earlier would have fought the Nazis in the Warsaw Uprising, in the Polish units of the Allied forces, etc. Basically, against anybody who posed a risk of spreading the knowledge that Poland used to be an independent and (mostly) democratic, sovereign state. And while this new regime was at its most brutal for just a few years and while Russians gradually left the offices to Poles (of pro-Soviet orientation), for the next 45 years, our country remained a prison for anybody wanting truth, real justice, rule of law, proper teaching of history, etc. This is the real Polish tragedy of the second half of the 20th century. The war was "only" its most violent starting point.

Your channel is great but with this one you won my heart! Thank you for understanding

You should definitely go see Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego, the best place to educate yourself and feel 44’ events. And don’t forget to look for and collect the calendar boards - every single day of uprising is described, hope they have english version of it. Love your videos ♥️

Thanks for this great video Emma. Don't feel ashamed because of tears.

If you want to learn more about Polisch history in World War II I highly recommend you tv series from 1970 "Kolumbowie" about the generation of Poles who were born soon after Poland regained its independence in 1918, and whose adolescence was marked by World War II.

I did not know about the exhibition. Thanx. Now I will surely go and see the film.

Omg your „dzień dobry” sounds really good! Also recommend you Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego!

Thank you for your feedback, I will certainly go there when I will visit Warsaw! Love from Italy

I cried as well.

It's just wonderful watching another foreigner trying to settle and experience the polish culture ❤️ Cheers

This is very engaging, thank you. I hope to visit this museum one day in not too distant future

Amazing video, thank you!

You were authentic. Thats real. Loved it.

It was like one drop of polish soul from the drip into your heart. I cried with you. Because I live in Australia and miss Poland and Warsaw so much. ❤️

@melianna999

2 жыл бұрын

Your polish pronunciation is sooooo good. Wow.

Great episode. Congratulations on your persistence in what you are doing. Regards

Well done and perfect music in background

You should also visit KL Aushwitz museum. For me as a person born in Poland it was the most unforgettable experience out of all museums I went to- it really stays with you.

wow... that was a super emotional video it breaks my heart to see You cry... I have to admit that I did not have a chance to "enjoy" the experience of "Kartka z powstania" so far but I can clearly see that it is a definitive "must see" kind of thing as for future recommendations, anything that has to do with Tadeusz Kościuszko. Long story short = that's the guy who single handedly defeated British for the first time during US fight for independence(at Saragossa), abolished slavery in the lands he has been granted by US government, build West Point and came back to non existing on the map(at his times) Poland to start "powstanie kościuszkowskie" (the word is he brought some american military experts with him - Thank You and Your ancestors for that) Considering Your upcoming EuroTrip, maybe it would be worth it, to plan a visit at Kościuszko Museum in Switzerland(place where he eventually passed away)

Your eyes are beatiful and i respect your respect to the world and Poland, Another great vid, inspirational, to be there and expierence whole expierience itself by doing everything you can to feel joy and be happy at the preticular moment, your not wasting time, Emma!

That's the reason I have avoided going to the Uprising Museum for years, until my family from the US visited and wanted to go there...

For me one of the most heartbraking experiences when learning about the history of Warsaw was visiting Mauzoleum Walki i Męczeństwa (Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom). I highly recommend it - it's absolutely terrifying to see a real place of torture, you can't really understand how people were capable of doing such unholy things to other humans. Also, it struck me how many people died in the area where I live now, with all those new fancy apartments built recently (Wola).

Wow, thanks, I live in Warsaw and wasn't even aware that there was such thing Koszyki, I must check it

Oh dear, you touched very soul of polish people.

@sophiewitter2275

2 жыл бұрын

this is the sweetest comment ever

@janjohnny4945

2 жыл бұрын

Emma is becoming a Polish.

Just wait for 1st of August in Warsaw. You will see how big it is in Poland.

This was fantastic

Slow process of becoming a Pole ,you may leave Poland ,but Poland will never leave you now

If you will ever go to Gdańsk I really recommend Muzeum II wojny światowej w Gdańsku, it's really well made, and even tho I'm Polish a caple things surprised me. I could see the whole war step by step, what people had to go through and walk through replicas of streets before and during the occupation. Warning: You will cry

deff gonna see it

Love your videos Emma and like you filling related to the uprising because of that Texas guy, I fill related to you. Just last year when you were in Warsaw, I was coming to St Louis area (from Chicago) to service our equipment in O'Fallon and Gravois Bluffs. You fill like next door girl. And you are lovely and funny when you speak polish because it is not easy language.

You are wonderful person. Thank you for visiting my country. Pozdrawiam!

Great vlog Emma. Lovely to watch your videos, your so natural doing this stuff. I would definitely recommend Poplin The History of Jews in Poland. It's big part of our culture too.

the good thing is I've started to appreciate Chopin thanks to your movies ;)

I`m historican and if you want to I will gladly help you with learning more about Poland or learning Polish ;) I can recomend you few things on youtube: "The Unconquered", "Animated history of Poland" or Sabaton band`s song "Uprising". When it comes to museums I think as most here that Aushwitz is something you should see...everyone should. Also museum of Second World War in Gdańsk or Exploseum in Bydgoszcz. For something more positive I can invite you to Poznań, we have museum of Rogale Świętomarcińskie, you have to try them :)

I can recommend an great exhibitions in 3city. In Gdańsk it’s ECS (European Solidarity Centre) and in Gdynia its emigration museum. And I love te Uprising museum in Warsaw it is great too

I recommend something to you which isn't any place to visit but the black and white film entitled 'Popiół i diament' ('Ashes and Diamonds') from 1958. This film helps you to delve into the people of that time or maybe sheer Polish nature at its finest (I like to think about it in this terms). It's available at KZread for free.

You should watch Miasto 44, great movie about young people in Warsaw Uprising

Recomended to watch The Pianist, film about true story polish pianist during 2 world war and how he survived uprising, that is very famous movie

If you are into our history you need to go to Gdańsk there are a lot of places worth to see

You touched me.

thank you for wanting to learn about Polish history, is not easy thing to do!

Great video there. If you want a similar feeling then meaby try Panorama Racławicka in Wrocław city? It may not be VR, but it's still very interesting and tells about our story (tho it's more in the past)

This vid got to the feels

I think that more impact on nowadays culture and mindset had the time under soviets power. Times of PRL when people was encourege by the system to be suspicous, to not trust others (of course many opposed that influnce) but i think it had a big impact on how some people think.

One thing I have too say, your pronunciation is really really good! Almost unnoticeable in some words that you are not native.

i haven't seen kartka z powstania yet but after that video it's the first thing i'm gonna do when i'm in warsaw next time

Bardzo przyjemnie się ciebie ogląda

If you want to read and learn about the Warsaw Uprising, this is a good book - Norman Davies,, Uprising 44 '' English writer also living in Poland. There should be an English version. In this uprising, 200,000 insurgents died and many civilians and Home Army soldiers were sent to extermination camps. An interesting fact in the uprising was taken by one African American man

I could recommend Warsaw uprising museum, but for me bigger impact always had this stone plates on random building here and there. Most of them have one specific text, like “here dies that amount of Poles in payback for killing that amount of Germans”.

I don't agree with the idea of this uprising, but i fully respect that people who did it And wow! you look amazing in this intro

Thank you for show it because this is important to understand polish citizens

90% polish people are same Beauty like You TY for visit this country

Very interesting

Have you visited the Warsaw Uprising Museum yet? It's a must-see.

if you want to know how war looked like, (and maybe cry a lot) you should watch ,,miasto 44'' it's polish movie about young people that had to live in those times.

fully agree with sosna - you have to visit WUM; and - it's a supernatural thing to cry facing with such extreme stories; hugs J.

Fort 7, Barbarka, Toruń. Trafiłem tam przypadkiem. Tam są groby poległych, to nie jest miejsce typu pomnik ku pamięci, a faktyczne miejsce spoczynku poległych. Pomnik też tam jest, polecam zobaczyć. Pomimo tego, że nie jest takich rozmiarów jak chociażby ten na Majdanku, robi o wiele mocniejsze wrażenie.

Well this shit stirs up my polish nationalism. AND I AM NOT EVEN POLISH

Im leaving for the airport to poland in 2 hours so it was like such a coincidence that your video popped up lmao

Uprising is quite holines for Warszawa natives. It is not so importent for others Poles, but it is bit key point of history. I'm for instance from such part of Poland witch peoples meet on streat gays witch unsloth thay family(Wołyń actions)