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Our today’s interviewee:
Mieczysław Buczkowski (born 1923), worked as a physician during the Warsaw Uprising. The fighting in the Żoliborz district began before the “W” hour [the official start of the uprising], Buczkowski didn’t make it on time to the location he was assigned to - the Ujazdów Castle. He remained in Żoliborz, where he provided assistance at the medical post on Krasińskiego Street and helped organize a hospital. To this day he remembers the wounded transported to the post after dramatic fighting over the Gdańsk Railway Station, 48-hour-long work shifts and caffeine injections that were supposed to keep the doctors alert. After he was injured during one of the attacks carried out by the Germans, he could no longer perform surgeries. He was moved to the hospital in the Sokolnicki Fort, from where he was then marched by the Germans to the Pruszków transit camp. He was in danger of being sent to Auschwitz, but due to a happy coincidence he avoided the deportation to the camp. The Germans put him on a train to the town of Stąporków and left him there. Buczkowski managed to reach the village of Błaszków, where a stranger took him in.
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