Kopiec Powstania Warszawskiego

This guide to Kopiec Powstania Warszawskiego follows the hill's origin as a postwar dumping ground, where trucks tipped the rubble of a city the Nazis had dynamited district by district after crushing the 1944 uprising. It traces architect Stanislaw Gruszczynski's 1945 idea to turn the debris into a monument, an idea he did not live to see realized, and the Home Army veterans who later reclaimed the overgrown mound decades on. For years before that, locals simply called the hill Zwalka, the dump.