This is part of the the Antoni Paszkiewicz project.
‘Bagdad, XI 1942r’ – Baghdad, November 1942. The Zawraa cinema on al Rashid Street; the film being shown is ‘Rendezvous’, a 1935 film starring William Powell and Rosalind Russell.
The majority of Polish forces were concentrated at Khanaqin, a little over 250 miles north-east of Baghdad. From the captions on the back of his photographs, it appears that Toni visited Baghdad in November 1942 and February 1943.
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- ‘Bagdad, XI 1942r’ – Baghdad, November 1942. The Zawraa cinema; the film being shown is ‘Rendezvous’, a 1935 film starring William Powell and Rosalind Russell.
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- ‘Bagdad, XI 1942r’ – Baghdad, November 1942
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- ‘Bagdad-panorama, listopad 1942r’ – Baghdad panorama. November 1942. The dome is the Latin (Roman Catholic) Church.
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- ‘Bagdad, II 1943r’ – Baghdad, February 1943. Al-Kādhimiya Mosque
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- ‘Bagdad, II 1943r’ – Baghdad, February 1943
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- ‘Ruiny w Bagdad, 1942r’ – Ruins in Baghdad, 1942
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- ‘Tigris – Irak 1942r’ – Tigris, Iraq 1942. The Qishla clock tower in Baghdad, the site of the headquarters of the Ottoman forces in Mesopotamia