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Our today’s interviewee:
Wiktor Walasiak (born 1929), a Warsaw Uprising insurgent, liaison operating in the sewers, who fought in the Żoliborz district. His district was fighting very bravely, but the Germans surrounded it from all sides. The commander Lieutenant Mieczysław Niedzielski (nom de guerre “Żywiciel”) had no intention of giving up, but having received the order to surrender from the leader of the Warsaw Uprising, he decided to capitulate. Right before the capitulation, Wiktor Walasiak returned through the sewers from Śródmieście to Żoliborz, carrying a report along with a colleague. It was an order stating that the insurgents were not to take off their armbands while giving up their arms to the Germans. The occupiers shot some of the soldiers who didn’t wear armbands, claiming they were common criminals. In one case, a German murdered a Polish soldier for refusing to take off his armband - he shot him in cold blood, aiming at the head from a very close distance. Wiktor Walasiak destroyed his anti-tank rifle and was permitted by his commander to leave Warsaw along with the civilians. He was on his way to Pruszków, but he managed to flee in the Włochy district. He found refuge at a house of a woman who was ill with typhus, as the Germans were afraid to enter the house. Marching at night, he made his way to Grodzisk Mazowiecki, where he joined his brother who was two years younger than Wiktor. That’s where his uprising story came to an end.
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