3415 - Warsaw, Poland

A nice tourist card from Warsaw (Warszawa). It's funny because in the senders Postcrossing biography, she says she doesn't like multi-view cards.

In the bottom left hand side of the card there is a photo of the Warsaw Rising Museum (Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego). It was established in 1983 and is dedicated to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The Warsaw Uprising was led by the Polish underground resistance to try to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It was timed to coincide with the retreat of German forces from Poland ahead of the Soviet Union's advance towards Germany. Unfortunately for the leaders of the uprising, the Soviet Red Army stopped in a Warsaw suburb which allowed the Germans to regroup and defeat the Polish resistance and subsequently destroy Warsaw in the process. The Uprising lasted for 63 days and there was little help from outside the city.

Almost 15 200 members of the Polish resistance were killed, with and addition 5000 wounded. Almost 5700 Polish First Army soldiers were also killed. Between 2000 and 17 000 Germans were killed or were missing in action, while 9000 were wounded.

The Warsaw Uprising Museum has several exhibitions that include photographs, audio and visual, interactive displays, artifacts, written accounts, and other testimonies of life during the German occupation. One of the sections of the museums includes the "little insurgent" room. It is dedicated to the children's experience during the uprising. There is also a photo of Róża Maria Goździewska, the girl known as "the little nurse." She was 8 years and the youngest nurse of the uprising. She lived to be 53 and died in 1989. Eugeniusz Lokajski took the famous photograph, but was killed a month later.

3227 - Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Mölln is a small city of about 20 000 located in northern Germany. The Elbe-Lübeck Canal flows through the town, and there are eight small lakes that surround the city. It was founded in the 12th century and was a part of the Old Salt Route. Salt that was produced in the salt mines of Lower-Saxony was shipped to the Baltic Sea. Till Eulenspiegel, a legendary trickster known for exposing vices and provoking thought, is said to have lived in Mölln the last year of his life. He apparently died of the plague in 1350, but his existence has never been proven. Mölln has several monuments dedicated to him.

3322 - Hamburg, Germany

Happy birthday to me! What a lovely handmade card from the sender. Beautiful penmanship. Am Rothenbaum is the site of the main court of the German Open Tennis Championships. The International German Open has been played at the Rothernbaum since 1892, making it Germany's longest running tennis tournament. The current stadium was built in 1999 and can hold 13 200 people.

3232 - Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America

The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal North Pierhead Light was built in 1882. There were nine keepers of the light until 1897. It was redesigned in 1903 and is 12 meters high. The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal was started in 1872 and wasn't opened for large-scale watercraft until 1890. The canal is 2.1 kilometers long that goes from Sturgeon Bay in Lake Michigan to Green Bay. There are no locks on this canal. The canal was sold to the United States government in 1893 and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains the canal.

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