Zew
2nd Lt.
Zygmunt Zatorski
KIA 24 August 1944
AK Command
Bór
Maj.-Gen.
Tadeusz Komorowski
CO AK
Monter
Brg.-Gen.
Antoni Chruściel
CO of AK in Warsaw
Wachnowski
Col.
Karol Ziemski
CO Group ‘North’
Kuba
Lt. Col.
Stanisław Juszczakiewicz
CO Sector ‘Kuba’
WU 13 August 1944
Sosna
Maj.
Gustaw Billewicz
CO Sector ‘Kuba-Sosna’
Radosław
Lt. Col.
Jan Mazurkiewicz
CO Combat Group ‘Radosław’
Doliwa
Col.
Leon Korzewnikianc
CO AK KB
Sokół
Maj.
Władysław Olszowski
CO Batt. ‘Sokół’
Other Units
Barry
Cpt.
Władysław Kozakiewicz
CO Military Police Gr. ‘North’
Ognisty
Cpt.
Lucjan Fajer
2nd in C. Batt. ‘Gozdawa’
Jacek
Cpt.
Sylwester Twarowski
Batt. ‘Gozdawa’
Kosa
Lt./Cpt.
Ludwik Witkowski
CO Unit ‘B’ Kedyw
Kot
C.Off.
Wiktor Rymszewicz
Unit ‘B’ Kedyw
WU 4 August 1944; KIA 5 August 1944
Unknown
Unknown
Zygmunt Rymszewicz
Unknown
KIA 1 August 1944
Note
1 Budzianowski, Batalion KB ‘Nałęcz’, pp. 111–27.
Select Bibliography
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Suggested Reading
Davies, Norman, Rising ’44 (London, 2003)
Kochanski, Halik, The Eagle Unbowed (Cambridge, Mass., 2012)
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Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (New York, 2010)
Plates
From upper left clockwise: Zygmunt Rymszewicz, KIA 1 August 1944; ‘Kot’ Wiktor Rymszewicz, KIA 4 September 1944; ‘Bohdan’ Bohdan Hryniewicz; ‘Tarzan’ Andrzej Hryniewicz, DW 21 August 1944. Warsaw, June 1943. (Author’s archive)
Mother and Andrzej, 1932. (Author’s archive)
‘Tarzan’ Andrzej Hryniewicz, DW 21 August 1944. Warsaw, June 1943. (Author’s archive)
Bohdan Hryniewicz, Szczecin, February 1946. (Author’s archive)
Number 35 Nowy Swiat, towards the intersection with Jerusalem Avenue. In the background, on the left, are the top floors of the BGK building that controlled the intersection. This is the first week of the Uprising. Note the Polish flag flying from the lamp post. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Braun)
Nowy Swiat 35 with a view to the west. The building with two shell holes is number 37, where the author lived with his family. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Braun)
A Jagdpanzer 38 Hetzer destroyed during the fighting for the post office on 3 August 1944. Used to strengthen the barricade on Szpitalna Street. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Braun)
German soldiers preparing a Goliath self-propelled mine on the outskirts of Warsaw, August 1944. (German State Archives)
A German police car captured during the first days of the Uprising on Swietokrzyska Street. Seated on the left fender is ‘Kot’, Wiktor Rymszewicz. (Author’s archive)
Sanitary patrol in the old town. During the Uprising practically all medics were women. Second week of August 1944. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Chojnacki)
Old town, Raczyński Palace at 7 Długa, used as a field hospital. Second week of August 1944. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Chojnacki)
A group of soldiers with weapons received from Allied airdrops. The last man on the right is holding a PIAT antitank weapon. 23 August 1944. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Joachimczyk)
The Karl-Gerät siege mortar was the largest German mortar, firing 24in shells weighing 2 tons. It was transported to Warsaw in the middle of August 1944. (Wałkowski Z.)
A ‘dud’ from a ‘flying coffer’, a 2-ton 24in shell, landed in a restaurant in the centre of town. It was disarmed and the explosive material was used to make grenades. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Lokajski)
Prudential building hit by 2 ton shell from 24in Karl-Gerät siege mortar, 28 August 1944. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Braun)
Rocket launchers on the outskirts of Warsaw being prepared to fire. (German State Archives)
‘Mooing cow’ incendiary rockets in flight towards Polish positions in Warsaw. (German State Archives)
German infantry deploying towards the town hall on Theatre Square, with the opera house in the background, end of August 1944. (German State Archives)
A German gun next to the opera house, opposite the town hall, end of August 1944. (Wałkowski Z.)
The German crew of a Sturmpanzer IV Brummbär (Grizzly Bear) on the streets of Warsaw. The heaviest assault gun, with a 6in short-barrelled howitzer, it was specifically designed to support infantry in urban fighting. (Warsaw Rising Museum)
A view towards Theatre Square. This picture was taken after the fall of the old town in the first days of September 1944. It shows German superiority in heavy armament. (Wałkowski Z.)
Soldiers from Radosław Group in the centre following arrival from the old town via the sewers on 1 September 1944. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Braun)
Soldiers from Parasol Battalion. Radosław Group in the centre, following their arrival from the old town. Left to right: medic ‘NN’, runner ‘Kama’ Maria Stypułkowska-Chojnacka, C.Off. ‘Krzych’ Krzysztof Palester. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Jochimczyk)
Caring for the wounded. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Joachimczyk)
Columns of Poli
sh troops marching, with unloaded weapons, past the demarcation line to lay down their arms, 5 October 1944. (Warsaw Rising Museum, Chojnacki)
Female members of the AK, mostly medics and runners, follow columns of soldiers into captivity, 5 October 1944. (German State Archives)
Eisenhower amidst Warsaw ruins, old town market square, 21 September 1945. (CAF Warsaw)
The author in Germany, March 1947. (Author’s archive)
Nałęcz Battalion plaque at the town hall. (Author’s archive)
Cover illustrations.
Front, top: Bohdan Hryniewicz, Szczecin, February 1946 (author’s archive); bottom: German gun next to the opera house, end of August 1944. (Wałkowski Z.)
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