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Our today’s interviewee:
Leszek Zabłocki (born in 1924 in Warsaw), a veteran, member of the Military Organization Lizard Union during World War II, prisoner of Pawiak (Warsaw) and three concentration camps. In September 1939, as a member of the air defense in Warsaw he was tasked with putting out incendiary bombs. During the occupation his father managed to get released from a roundup by pretending to be a city clerk. Leszek Zabłocki joined the resistance movement and the Military Organization Lizard Union, but soon afterwards he was arrested after being recognized by an informant in a photograph found among the belongings of his friend who lived in the same building and who got captured by the Germans. Detained in the Pawiak prison, he was subjected to a brutal interrogation. He witnessed the persecution of Jewish prisoners. After the interrogation, he was placed in a solitary cell, where he was trying to keep himself occupied and not to think about his future. From time to time, the Germans subjected him to penal exercises which always led to a beating.
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8 окт 2024
