15 September 1939 [1] The bombing is getting more and more intensive. The number of destroyed houses is ever increasing. Despite appeals from Mayor Starzyński, shops are closed most of the time. Some grocery shops serve customers for 2–3 hours with their doors half-closed. Queues form, in spite of protests from Żoliborz officials.
A queue in front of the Dairy Cooperative shop was destroyed by a bomb. More than a dozen people dead and wounded.
The streets grow more and more deserted. Roadways and sidewalks are littered with bomb debris and shrapnel.
Wilson Square, called now “death square”, is a restricted area. Soldiers are seen here and there, moving quickly alone or galloping by on horseback.
At Mickiewicza Street and Invalids’ Square (Plac Inwalidów)—a defence line—people are still digging anti-tank trenches. The diggers are men brought
