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Summary

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Warsaw_(1939)" class="extiw" title="en:Siege of Warsaw (1939)">Siege of Warsaw</a> by German forces in September of 1939:

Two Polish mothers pose with their newborn infants during the siege of Warsaw.

In September 1959 Julien Bryan wrote more about it in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_(American_magazine)" class="extiw" title="en:Look (American magazine)">Look magazine</a>:

During one air raid in those tragic two weeks of the siege, I took shelter in a maternity hospital. Huddled on the cold stone floors of the basement were 50 mothers with their infants. Some of the mothers bore shrapnel wounds received when the hospital was shelled by the Nazi guns ringing Warsaw. It was there that I photographed a young mother with her twin boys. That mother, Mrs. Balbina Szymanska, came to the Express offices to meet me. She said that the boys and their father had been killed during the 1944 revolt, when the Poles, at the bidding of Radio Moscow, rose against their German conquerors. The Red Army failed to come to the aid of the Poles, and the Nazis crushed them ruthlessly. During Mrs. Szymanska's absence from home, on September 5, 1944, a shell blasted their house, killing the twins and their father. It was the boys' fifth birthday. She has remarried and now has three children by her second husband.

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