Word: kierbedz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warsaw has a deathly stillness. In the whole panorama from Poniatowski Bridge to Kierbedz Bridge (both wrecked) there was not a single sign of human life. The buildings are not all flattened-some walls stand, but they are shells. The Prudential Insurance skyscraper (twelve stories) had lost its tower and one could look right through holes from one side of the building to the other. Only one church could be seen standing: the Wizytek on Cracow Street. There was not a trace of St. Alexander Church in the Square of the Three Crosses, or of the famous Holy Cross Church...
...North of Kierbedz Bridge there appears to be nothing left at all. There was no vestige of the Royal Palace - just empty space where it was. The Old City is a heap of ruins and Zoliborz, the residential suburb, is entirely destroyed...
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