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Looks like Warsaw 44 (Miasto 44) has been uploaded on YT. I've checked and it is the actual film. Not the best quality and no EN subtitles though. I'd prefer not to post the actual link here and I've stumbled upon it by accident, so let's just leave it at KKtzlORYF2k ;)) It definitely looks better in HD and on big screen.
He's not exactly of generation this blog focuses on but with yesterday's anniversary, it'd be good to remind the world of this man.
Witold Pilecki
In 1940, Pilecki presented to his superiors a plan to enter Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp at Oświęcim, gather intelligence on the camp from the inside, and organize inmate resistance. Until then, little had been known about the Germans' running of the camp and it was thought to be an internment camp or large prison rather than a death camp. His superiors approved the plan and provided him with a false identity card in the name of "Tomasz Serafiński." On 19 September 1940, he deliberately went out during a Warsaw street roundup and was caught by the Germans. After two days detention Pilecki was sent to Auschwitz and was assigned inmate number 4859.
At Auschwitz Pilecki organized an underground Union of Military Organizations (ZOW). ZOW's tasks were to improve inmate morale, provide news from outside, distribute extra food and clothing to members, set up intelligence networks, and train detachments to take over the camp in the event of a relief attack by the Home Army, arms airdrops, or an airborne landing by the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, based in Britain.
ZOW provided the Polish underground with invaluable information about the camp. From October 1940, ZOW sent reports to Warsaw, and beginning in March 1941, Pilecki's reports were being forwarded via the Polish resistance to the British government in London. In 1942 Pilecki's resistance movement were also broadcasting details on the number of arrivals and deaths in the camp, and the inmates state and their conditions using a radio transmitter that was built by camp inmates (built over seven months using smuggled parts).
These reports (Witold's Report) were a principal source of intelligence on Auschwitz for the Western Allies. Pilecki hoped that either the Allies would drop arms or troops into the camp or that the Home Army would organize an assault on it from outside. Such plans, however, were all judged impossible to carry out. Pilecki decided to break out of the camp, with the hope of personally convincing Home Army leaders that a rescue attempt was a valid option. When he was assigned to a night shift at a camp bakery outside the fence, he and two comrades overpowered a guard, cut the phone line and escaped on the night of 26/27 April 1943, taking with them documents stolen from the Germans.
The Auschwitz Volunteer is available in English on amazon, bookdepository, etc.
Czas Honoru Main Male Characters
Janek + Bronek + Michał + Władek
But I beseech you – there is hope while there is breath. Do lead the nation with a wisdom’s torch held high, And one by one, if needed be, go straight to death, As God-hurled stones that densely over ramparts fly.
"These are my people. They are at your disposal." "These children?"
Die verlorene Zeit / Remembrance / Zagubiony czas (2011)
Based on a true story of Jerzy Bielecki and Cyla Cybulska who together successfully escaped from Auschwitz in 1944.
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Unknown member of Armia Krajowa (Poland’s Home Army resistance movement) during the early days of the Warsaw Uprising in August of 1944.
Włodzimierz Wiśniewski, 19 (codename "Włodek", "Cygan"/"Gypsy"). Pic taken by the amazing Eugeniusz Lokajski.
Those around him changed from time to time: his nearest relations, or his friends; but one person never left his side, and that was Zośka.
Chcecie się bawić w wojnę? Chcecie umierać na niby? Dobrze. Idę obudzić tych, którzy śpią w trumnach.
You want to pretend this is a game? Pretend to die? Fine. I'll go wake up those asleep in their coffins.
It was our here and now, our youth. We fought believing that our actions had profound meaning.
“Warsaw Rising" is the world’s first feature film made entirely from documentary materials. It tells the story of the Warsaw Rising of 1944 through the eyes of two young reporters, witnesses to insurgent fighting. It uses authentic newsreels filmed in August of 1944. Applying modern technology methods of colorization and audio reconstruction and ensuring the cooperation of the best artists, the “Warsaw Rising” has no equal. (x)
Apparently the DVD will be out on Friday? Warsaw Uprising Museum will only start selling it next summer, so fingers crossed the first info is true. And that they thought about adding English subtitles.
tomorrow we're going to the movies (2007)
They never saw each other again. None of them survived the war.
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…together we were chasing the fire that would mercilessly turn the city into ashes
Baczyński (2013) [x] [x]
On the purple-gray meadows sky spreads fluidity of the arcades. Landscape soaks softly into eyelids, clotted salt on naked lips.
Notoriously difficult to translate, he is sadly unknown outside of Poland.
