In December 1944, two landmarks disappeared from the panorama of Warsaw: the Saski Palace and the Brühl Palace. Practically from the same moment we can track the story of their reconstruction, as the Capital Reconstruction Office (BOS) was established in February 1945, while in November it was decided that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier […]
The “Phenomenon” series is a cycle of twelve films in which a number of researchers and specialists describe some of the most interesting topics related to the history of the Saski and Brühl Palaces. Each episode focuses on a different aspect of their past, setting it in the wider context of the history of Warsaw and Poland. The setting for the series is the 2023 archaeological survey of the site of the former Brühl Palace, which yielded nearly ten thousand artefacts. Our guide for each episode is the Head of the research, Michał Grabowski.