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Our today’s interviewee:
Czesław Lewandowski (born in 1928), member of the Gray Ranks who took part in the Warsaw Uprising, prisoner of KL Stutthof. He was the eldest out of six children. His father was executed by the Germans on 2 May 1940 at the Okęcie Airport in Warsaw - allegedly for sabotage. His mother hadn’t had a job prior to that, and in their new difficult situation she decided to trade goods in the countryside. Unfortunately, she never came back from one of her trips. The 13-year-old Czesław Lewandowski suddenly became the head of the family and struggled to look after his five younger siblings. After some time, the Central Welfare Council learned about their situation and helped the children find a place at various orphanages. Due to terrible conditions at his orphanage, Czesław Lewandowski escaped less than two weeks later. He joined the Gray Ranks and began training in the woods and getting his first assignments. During one of them, he was saved from a German gendarmerie patrol in an unexpected way…
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3 май 2021
