Poczta Polska paid tribute to the Warsaw Uprising
On Thursday, August 6 this year. In Warsaw, representatives of Poczta Polska celebrated the memory of heroic postalists who, during the Warsaw Uprising, operated as part of the field mail.
A delegation of Poczta Polska laid a wreath under a plaque commemorating the Warsaw Uprising post, located in the building of the Postal Office in Warsaw 1 at 31/33 Street.
- The testimony left by postcards operating in the insurgent capital is a reason for us to be proud, we want to cultivate them and remind us to subsequent generations. The Warsaw Uprising was the greatest armed action of the underground in Europe occupied by the Germans, and Field Post played an extremely important role in it. Young people involved in postal activities enabled the capital of the capital communication, becoming the messengers of hope - said Tomasz Zdzikot, president of the board of Poczta Polska.
Then representatives of Poczta Polska in a symbolic place on 41 Wilcza Street paid tribute to communications from the scout's field mail. the apiary was located , i.e. the Gray Ranks Headquarters, in which the field mail began its activity.
Field mail - heroic heritage of Poczta Polska
The history of the scout's field mail (HPP) is closely related to the activities of the Home Army Field Mail (PP AK). Conspiracy communication in the structures of the Underground State was one of the most extensive among underground organizations of the occupied European countries. Organizational works on creating HPP in its first branch at ul. Wilcza 41 started on August 2, 1944. However, the official start of business took place on Sunday, August 6.
Young people from Gray Ranks provided communication in Insurgent Warsaw. The whole content of correspondence could not exceed 25 words in the letter . It is assumed that postalists transferred 200,000 shipments during the Warsaw Uprising.
On October 3, 1944, the last appeal of the scout post took place in the Pasieka at 41 Wilcza Street. The uprising collapsed, and the insurgent Field Mail ended its activity.
Polish Post - we remember!
Poczta Polska has always cares for the memory of heroes from the cards of Polish history. Being a national postal operator, we join the activities that all citizens serve. We are an institution that functions in public space on a mission basis. With more than 460 years of tradition, we feel obliged to bring values from the history of the whole nation. Our company is trying to be a relay of the history of Poland. This year, we once again joined the action with which we have been from the very beginning of its existence. Bohateron - turn on the story!, Because this project is about this project is a nationwide historical campaign, aimed at commemorating and honoring the participants of the Warsaw Uprising.