From August 1st to October 2nd, pay special attention to Warsaw streets. In many places, you'll see "Letters from War", fragments of uprising correspondence, showing people's daily lives and their most important matters.

In collaboration with the Warsaw Uprising Museum, we selected several letters. We then gave them a simple, subtly animated form as spots and are presenting them on MORE, digital out-of-home screens. The MORE network was established three years ago, and from the beginning, we've been using it to communicate important matters. And August 1st is always an important matter in Warsaw.

DOOH Screens for Important Causes

In 2020, we prepared an unusual outdoor exhibition "Traces of the Warsaw Uprising “. Its subjects were locations, each of the 100 photographs precisely illustrated the history of the place or area where the screen was located: https://jetline.pl/dooh/100-fotografii-z-powstania-warszawskiego-na-cyfrowej-wystawie The following year, in 2021, people became the focus. We presented photographs by Eugeniusz Lokajski, "Brok”, who documented the uprising from August 1st until September 25th, the day he died https://jetline.pl/aktualnosci/w-jet-line-na-ekranach-fotografie-eugeniusza-lokajskiego-broka

It's been 78 years since the Warsaw Uprising began. Letters from the Uprising have become the central theme in this year's remembrance of the people and times of 1944. Through these letters, we simultaneously experience the places, people, events, and emotions.

Uprising Postal Service

In Warsaw, during the Uprising, about 200,000 letters were sent. These notes, cards, and small pieces of paper, now faded in places, brief out of necessity, were themselves a sign of what mattered most: that the sender was alive. The mail carriers were the youngest scouts of the Gray Ranks, known as "deliverers of joy".

"Rysiek! Everything is fine. My leg is in splints. I'll write in the evening." Imagine what relief and happiness such a small note could bring. Deliverer of joy. It's hard to think of a more fitting name for a Gray Ranks scout who appeared at the door with such a letter.

These are the first commemorations of the Warsaw Uprising anniversary since the war in Ukraine began. And it's impossible not to think about people who are waiting for news from their loved ones, who are sending messages. It doesn't matter that the form has changed. What's most important remains the same. SMS, messenger messages, phone calls, or emails can still be deliverers of joy.

We thank the Warsaw Uprising Museum for providing the uprising correspondence.
The city, people, and events in uprising correspondence can be found at listyzwojny.pl and on our Jet Line Digital OOH screens in August, September, until early October.

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