Following the Great Retreat in 1915 the church was returned to the Catholics . In 1923 a new St. Lawrence 's parish was created there . During the 1939 siege of Warsaw the church was only lightly damaged . However , during the Warsaw Uprising the Germans took the church and used it for the mass murder of civilians of Warsaw they had captured during the Wola massacre . After that the church was set on fire
Wola massacre
Wola massacre
St. Lawrence's Church, Warsaw