The interview was recorded by the PILECKI INSTITUTE as part of the WITNESSES TO THE AGE project.
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Our today’s interviewee:
Bogdan Bartnikowski (born 1932), a colonel, pilot of the Polish Army, writer and witness to the Warsaw Uprising. He grew up in the Ochota district of Warsaw. In 1944 he saw large groups of German soldiers and their collaborators from Russia and Belarus fleeing from the advancing Red Army. Several days before the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising the fleeing masses disappeared and the German administration resumed working. The W-hour came - the Warsaw Uprising broke out - and the residents of Warsaw felt they were free at last. Many insurgents withdrew from the Ochota district to the Chojnów Forest, but several hundred of them stayed in the district and formed a unit commanded by Andrzej Chyczewski (nom de guerre “Gustaw”). His soldiers captured Antonin (a youth education center organized by the Orionine Fathers at 4 Barska Street). They also captured three trucks filled with weapons and military equipment that had been left there by the Germans. As a result, they could engage in a proper fight with the Germans. They set up the so-called Kaliska Redoubt. The insurgents used this place to block the Germans from Grójecka Street, one of the main roads in Warsaw, which led to the Poniatowski Bridge.
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