Dan Cruickshank Resurrecting History Warsaw

Dan Cruickshank returns to his childhood home of Warsaw for the first time in almost 60 years In a personal and moving film he recalls his boyhood memories to explore the memories of the city and the memories of its people No city in Europe suffered so much destruction in the Second World War no city rose up so heroically from the ashes The Nazis had razed Warsaw to the ground but after the war the people fought hard to bring their city back from the dead in one of the greatest reconstruction jobs in history As a boy Cruickshank lived in the rebuilt old town and it inspired his love of architecture and made him the man he is today