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Our today’s interviewee:
Henryk Troszczyński (born 1923 in Warsaw), witness to the exhumation of the Katyn graves, Home Army soldier, nom de guerre “Murarz”. He talks about his activities in the underground resistance, e.g. about smuggling grenades in sacks. After several days of fighting in the Warsaw Uprising, he was taken prisoner as a civilian. He witnessed the Wola Massacre. He was about to be executed, standing against the wall with a group of other people, but the German who was shooting at them was too drunk to hit the mark. He was saved when German gendarmes intervened, looking for some inhabitants of Warsaw whom they wanted to use as human shields.
He also recalls saving a small boy, who was lying in the street with gunshot wounds to his legs. He handed him over to nuns who took care of him. Henryk Troszczyński along with other arrestees were taken to the West Railway Station and transported to the Pruszków transit camp. From there, he was sent to the camp in Namslau, where he remained until the end of the war.
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