A little-known film of Herbert Hoover’s visit to Poland in 1946 is available to view on YouTube. The footage taken during the former presidents time in Warsaw, the capital city devastated during the Warsaw Uprising and its aftermath, is a rare look at the conditions in the city soon after the end of World War II.
Mr. Hoover visits the Muranów neighborhood, Hoover Square (named after Hoover for his relief efforts on Poland’s behalf through the American Relief Administration after World War I) and the base of the Statue of Gratitude to America (which was unveiled on July 4th, 1922, but taken down in the 1930s when it began to crumble, Hoover was told that it was destroyed by the Germans), the Annopol neighborhood, Napoleon Square (now Warsaw Insurgents Square), the Old Town and the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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