Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (150 page)

Notes to Capsules

NKVD
(p. 222)
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After Witold Sagajłło,
Man in the Middle: a Story of the Polish Resistance
(London, 1984), pp. 131–2, 136–40.
RECRUIT
(p. 228)
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1
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‘Rysiek’: Stanisław Aronson (Tel Aviv),
War Recollections: Poland, 1939–45
, (1988) typescript, pp. 1–7, 24–25: correspondence with the author.
MELECH
(p. 231)
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1
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The Personal Notes and Diary of Eugeniusz Melech, Part 2. <
www.polbox.com/L/Lpgideon
>.
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Ibid., ‘The Insurrection’, 30 July, 1 August 1944.
IRKA I
(p. 234)
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From the memoirs of Irena Findeisen, née Zieleniewska, now Bellert, written at the author’s request (2002).
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2
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Miron Białoszewski,
Pami
tnik Powstania War szawskiego
(Warsaw, 1988), p. 5.
PROSPECTS
(p. 238)
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Stanislas Likiernik,
By Devil’s Luck: A Tale of Resistance in Wartime Warsaw
(Edinburgh, 2001), p. 111.
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Bartoszewski,
DWS
, p. 12.
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Likiernik, op. cit., p. 11–12.
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Zbigniew Mróz, ‘Ed’, Memoir dated August 1980, letter to the author, 8 January 2003.
BAPTISM OF FIRE
(p. 246)
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Aronson, op. cit., pp. 26–30.
L-HOUR
(p. 250)
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S. Likiernik, op. cit., pp. 112–15.
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SS Ustuf
. Gustaw Schielke. The conversation took place in a Warsaw prison in 1949. See K. Moczarski,
Conversations with an Executioner
(Eaglewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1977), p. 262.
TRAPPED
(p. 255)
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After C. Miłosz,
Native Realm: a Search for Self-Definition
(London, 1988), pp. 248–50.
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Krzysztof Zanussi: letter to the author, 2002.
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J. Damski
(source, ‘Trader’, see below).
MASSACRE
(p. 258)
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1
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From M. M. Drozdowski,
Ko
ciół a Powstanie Warszawskie: wybór i opracowanie
(Warsaw, 1994).
GOOSE FARM
(p. 261)
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W. Micuta, ‘Wspomnienia z pierwszych dni Powstania Warszawskiego’: Geneva, 1994. Typescript: meeting with the author, August 2002.
PROFESSOR
(p. 266)
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From the memoir of Professor Hans Thieme, Captain in the 203rd Division: B. Lewandowska and S. Martin (eds),
Der Warschauer Aufstand
(Warsaw, 1999), pp. 269-74.
SEWER I
(p. 269)
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Dr J. Rossman, ps. ‘Marten’: quoted in Bartoszewski,
DWS
, pp. 328-9.
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El
bieta Ostrowska, ps. ‘Ela’: Bartoszewski, ibid., pp. 39-40.
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Jan Józef Lipski, ps. ‘Rake’, ibid., pp. 299-300.
BARRICADE
(p. 276)
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1
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Anna
wirczy
ska, ps. ‘
wit’,
Budowałam barykad
(1974), (Cracow, 1984).
PANTHER
(p. 281)
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‘Dyon 1806’; cryptonym of the 1st Regiment of Dragoons. Letter from Andrzej Nowakowski of Rawdon (Quebec), 4 December 2002, based on notes written by Wojciech Kasznica shortly after the Rising. Mr Nowakowski is the son-in-law of Gen. Anders.
NIGHT PATROL
(p. 285)
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1
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‘Jan Nowak’ (Zdzisław Jeziora
ski), quoted by Bartoszewski,
DWS
, pp. 164-5. Lt. ‘Janusz’ died of wounds received in following his orders.
MAGYAR
(p. 289)
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1
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Tadeusz Sarnicki (Jerzy Korwin),
Warszawa heroiczna. Pami
tnik z Powstania Warszawskiego
, Biblioteka Narodowa, MS BN II.7944 Mf 58194.
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Bartoszewski,
DWS
, p. 105.
REFLECTIONS
(p. 292)
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The first comments derive from various dates in 1942-43, only and the relation of 11 August 1944 is from the time of the Warsaw Rising. Quoted by Władisław Szpilman,
The Pianist: the Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
(New York, 2000), pp. 193-208.
TRADER
(p. 295)
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1
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Interview, Los Angeles, 14 May 1988, as a contribution to a Holocaust educational project: <
www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/johndstory1.html
>.
SAVAGERY
(p. 299)
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Kamila Merwartowa,
Upiorne lata. Wspomnienia z lat 1939-45.
Rps Ossolineum, Wroclaw 15667/II; Mf 88475.
PAST
(p. 303)
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From the Diary of Eugeniusz Melech, op. cit. The German author of the original notes, Kurt Heller, was from Munich, F.P.N.L. no. 49,773.
NAVIGATOR
(p. 308)
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Dennis Richards,
Royal Air Force 1939-1945, The Balkans and the Middle East