Sejm and Senate salute the Warsaw Uprising

The Sejm and the Senate paid their tribute to the heroes and victims of the Warsaw Uprising. The event which started sixty years ago this Sunday, on August 1, 1944 lasted two months before it was brutally suppressed by the Nazis. The Sejm proclaimed 2004 as the Year of Remembrance of the Warsaw Rising. In its tribute, the Sejm stated: "The Warsaw Uprising was the most heroic Polish battle of World War Two," and mentioned the massacre of the civilian population by the Nazis and the halt of the Soviet offensive on the East bank of the Wisła. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will participate in Sunday's official ceremonies commemorating the event. Sunday will also mark the opening of the Warsaw Uprising Museum and the publication of the Polish version of "Rising '44", a book on the Uprising by renowned British historian Norman Davies. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) T.J.