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Notes: 4 / 1 month ago from pieprzeciemiasto
Warszawa
Plac Saski w 1915, dziś Plac Piłsudskiego.
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Notes: 7 / 1 month ago from zosiaprominska
Smolensk tragedy memorial
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2 months ago
The „Last Sunday” — erroneously called „THAT Last Sunday” — was composed by Jerzy Petersburski in 1936. It is a nostalgic tango with lyrics by Zenon Friedwald describing the final meeting of former lovers who are parting. The Polish title was “To Ostatnia Niedziela” (“The Last Sunday”). The song was extremely popular and was performed by numerous artists (best kown performance by Mieczysław Fogg). Along the way, it first gained the nick-name of “Suicide Tango” due to its sad lyric (although, the real „suicie song” in the night restaurants of Eastern Europe — where the shoot in the brow at 12 at night was not any unusual happening - was In 1930s another sad „Sunday”: the „Gloomy Sunday” (in Polish: „Smutna niedziela”) by a Hungarian composer Rezső Seress. (Soon, an international hit; in the US sung by Billie Holiday).
But this Polish „Last Sunday” song also had a terribly sad fate. During World War II In the concentrations camps it was often played while Jewish prisoners were led to the gas chambers and ovens, to be executed. During World War II its Russian version was prepared by Iosif Alveg and performed by Leonid Utyosov under the title of “Weary Sun” (Russian: “Utomlyennoye Solntse”). After World War II, the song remained largely successful and appeared in a number of films, including Yuriy Norshteyn’s 1979 “Tale of Tales” (considered by many international critics to be the greatest animated film ever made), the award-winning Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “White” (1994) and Nikita Mikhalkov’s “Burnt by the Sun” of the same year. The Russian title of the song also became the name-sake for the latter film and — as the result - even the more educated and worldly Russians nowadays consider the old tango from Warsaw their „Russian national song”.
Recording: Mieczysław Fogg - To ostatnia niedziela (Petersburski/Friedwald), Syrena-Electro 1936 -
Notes: 3 / 3 months ago
Jan Bułhak
Dachy starego miasta w Warszawie.
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Notes: 56 / 3 months ago from es-lebe-deactivated20120505
Warsaw, Poland - 1935 and 1945.
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Notes: 8 / 4 months ago from lostarchitecture
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Notes: 1 / 4 months ago from bookmarklet
Warsaw Ghetto, razed by German destroying forces (de.: Vernichtungskommando), on Adolf Hitler’s orders, after the supression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. East view, 1945.Warszawskie Getto, zrównane z ziemią przez niemieckie oddziały niszczycielskie (niem.: Vernichtungskommando), zgodnie z rozkazem Adolfa Hitlera, po stłumieniu powstania w getcie warszawskim w 1943. Widok w kierunku zachodnim, zdjęcie wykonane w 1945Warschauer Ghetto, nach Niederschlagung des Aufstandes von 1943 gemäß einem Befehl Adolf Hitlers von deutschen Vernichtungskommandos dem Erdboden gleichgemacht. Aufnahme von Osten, entstanden 1945.Autor Leonard Jarzemski
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