St Augustine Church

Warsaw


An area landmark, this red-brick Catholic church, consecrated in 1903, was within the Warsaw Ghetto. Germans used its tower as an observation point and a machine gun nest. After WWII St Augustine's was one of a handful of buildings left standing in the former ghetto.

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