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Tadeusz Sułowski

Interviewer: Karta Youth Group
Photographer: Pulse-team
Date of Interview: 2006-12-01

They did not want us in sabotage, we were too young. Our scout authorities made it clear not to get us into sabotage.

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Tadeusz Sułowski

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chapter list

01 |

Introduction, family, Germans begin the war

02 |

German administrator: Erik Erdbrüger

03 |

Life in Warsaw; socialist conspiracy

04 |

Tadeusz joins the scouts, later the resistance army

05 |

Tadeusz’s first serious action

06 |

Tadeusz’s brother: tasks, actions, death

07 |

Defeat in Okecie

08 |

Becoming a partisan; battle against Germans

09 |

Life of a partisan

10 |

Surrounded by German troops, escape

11 |

Song about the conspiracy

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Tadeusz Sułowski’s aunt in the concentration camp in Auschwitz

Short Biography

He was born on February 4th, 1929 in Warsaw. At the beginning of the war he engaged in the scouts’ activities, took part in reconnaissance actions and acts of sabotage. During the Warsaw Uprising he took part as a member of the AK (Home Army) in the unsuccessful attack on the Okęcie airport. Later on he reached the forests near Warsaw and subsequently served in three partisan squads. After the war, for a few years he was imprisoned in communist prison for subversive activity. He lives in Józefów near Warsaw.