St. Hyacinth's Church

This guide to St. Hyacinth's Church in Warsaw returns to late August 1944, when the basement beneath you served as a surgical hospital for the Warsaw Uprising, crowded with wounded on straw and stretchers and civilians fleeing shelled homes for its thick seventeenth-century walls. You'll hear what happened when a German bomb struck directly, and how SS troops moved through the ruins a week later. Walk to the garden behind the church, where one deliberately unrepaired piece of wall still carries the marks.