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.