Lwów Uprising
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| Lwów Uprising | |||||||
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| Part of Operation Tempest, World War II | |||||||
 Polish soldiers fighting in the University of Technology area |
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 Germany |
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| Władysław Filipkowski | |||||||
| Operation Tempest |
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| Volhynia – Kowel – Łuck – Równe – Włodzimierz Wołyński – Lubartów – Kock – Wilno Uprising – Krawczuny – Miedniki – Rudniki Forest – Lwów Uprising – Jodła – Ceber – Warsaw Uprising |
The Lwów Uprising was the armed struggle started by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) against the Nazi occupiers of Lwów, during World War II. It started on July 23, 1944 as a part of a plan of all-national uprising codenamed Operation Tempest and lasted until July 27.
On July 23 the Home Army forces in Lwów (now Lviv) started an armed uprising in cooperation with the advancing Soviet forces. The city was liberated in four days. After that the civil and military authorities were summoned for a meeting with Red Army commanders and captured by the NKVD. The remaining forces of col. Władysław Filipkowski were either forcibly conscripted to the Red Army, sent to Gulag or returned to the underground.
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- Bolesław Tomaszewski; Jerzy Węgierski (1987). Zarys historii lwowskiego obszaru ZWZ-AK. Warsaw: Pokolenie, 38.
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