Polish Arts Club to screen film about Warsaw Uprising

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Polish Arts Club of Youngstown will present a program about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at St. Casimir Church, 149 Jefferson St.

The free event will include a screening of the BBC documentary “The Battle for Warsaw.” The 50-minute documentary, produced by award- winning director Wanda Koscia, features an interview with Koscia’s mother, who was a participant in the uprising.

Also, Halina Junak will speak. Junak joined the Underground Resistance in 1943. She was arrested, tortured, taken to a prison camp by the Russian Army and sentenced to death. However, she was released 10 years later. Junak immigrated to the United States in 1960. Her story became the subject of the book “Null and Void” in 2008.

The Warsaw Uprising was a civilian resistance movement during World War II. The battle lasted for two months.

For more information, go to www.polishyoungstown.com/artsclub.