Nowolipki
An unassuming place in central Warsaw

History of Nowolipki

From the surviving Church of St. Augustine, through postwar stories of miracles, to the Ringelblum Archive, former plots and literary traces of Nowolipki: these texts bring together the places, events and layers of memory that show how the street endured in the history of Muranow. The new article on The Girls from Nowolipki and The Apple Tree of Paradise shows how the neighborhood became Pola Gojawiczyńska's literary world, and follows its screen adaptations from Józef Lejtes's 1937 film to Barbara Sass's films of the 1980s.

The "zero" miracle on Nowolipki

The surviving Church of St. Augustine


The First Miracle on Nowolipki, 1959

The first apparition of the Virgin Mary


The Second Miracle on Nowolipki, 1970

The second apparition of the Virgin Mary


The Ringelblum Archive on Nowolipki

The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto


Plots on Nowolipki

A diagram of former addresses on Nowolipki Street


The Girls from Nowolipki and The Apple Tree of Paradise

Pola Gojawiczyńska's Warsaw diptych and its screen adaptations