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Our today’s interviewee:
Mieczysław Buczkowski (born 1923), a physician, participant of the Warsaw Uprising. In 1940 he passed his school exit exams and began studying medicine during clandestine classes. He worked at the Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital and the Ujazdowski Hospital. He witnessed many crimes committed by the Germans in occupied Poland. While visiting a friend in Garwolin, he saw a German soldier who shot a starving Jewish boy with a smile on his face and then threw the boy’s body into a ditch. After the clandestine classes were uncovered, Mieczysław Buczkowski was arrested and sent to a transit camp, where he saw the sadistic camp commander trample a 10-year-old boy to death. Luckily, Buczkowski was eventually released from the camp and he returned to working at a hospital, where he helped rescue wounded soldiers of the Polish Underground State. At virtually every hospital in Warsaw medics treated gunshot wounds - no one asked who the patient was or how he got injured. The medical charts were filled in with such diagnoses so as to avoid raising suspicions among the Germans.
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17 ноя 2022
