Miszczak, Franciszek (Oral history)

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Description

Object description

Polish officer served with 19th Field Artillery Regt, Polish Army in Poland, 1935-1939; internee in Lithuania, 1939-1940; intelligence officer with Section II Polish Intelligence Service in Lithuania and Poland, 1940-1944; officer served with Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, 8/1944-10/1944; prisoner of war in Germany, 10/1944-5/1945

Content description

REEL 1 Background in Lüben, Germany, 1911-1929: family; education. Aspects of period as officer cadet and officer with 19th Field Artillery Regt, Polish Army in Poland, 1935-1939: reasons for joining Polish Army and choice of artillery; pattern of training as officer cadet, 1930-1932; joining 19th Field Artillery Regt, 1935; artillery pieces used by Polish Army; lack of faith in Munich Agreement, 9/1938; mobilisation, 8/1939; rejoining his artillery battery on German attack, 1/9/1939; capture by Soviet Army and escape from prisoner of war camp, 10/1939. Aspects of period as internee in Lithuania, 1939-1940: crossing into Lithuania. REEL 2 Continues: problems of getting to west; internment by Lithuanians, 1939-1940; release from internment camp, early 1940. Aspects of period as intelligence officer with Section II Polish Intelligence Service in Lithuania, 1940-1943: first contact with Section II; threat from Gestapo, 1943; his cover as Byelorussian militiaman; attempt to cross into Poland via occupied Soviet Union, 1943. Aspects of period as intelligence officer with Section II, Polish Intelligence Service in Poland, 4/1943-7/1944: arrival in Warsaw, 4/1943; making first contact with Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Warsaw, 4/1943. REEL 3 Continues: geographical divisions of Section II, Polish Intelligence Service in Poland; transfer to Lublin, summer 1943; reorganisation of resistance in Lublin; disruption of central organisation of Polish Intelligence Service; narrow escape from Gestapo, 1943. Recollections of operations as officer with Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) during Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, 8/1944-10/1944: formation of unit under his command and area of responsibility; pattern of service during Uprising and unit casualties. REEL 4 Continues: German use of human shields; morale; fighting around Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA); supply of rations; lack of arms and ammunition; Soviet officer who fought with his unit; warning received from Soviet officer about treatment that he would receive from Soviet authorities; nature of wounds. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Germany, 10/1944-5/1945: removal from hospital to captivity; treatment by Germans; arrival in GB after captivity, 1945. Recollections of period as intelligence officer with Section II Polish Intelligence Service in Lithuania and Poland, 1940-1944: method of gathering intelligence about German Army units. REEL 5 Continues: organisation of intelligence gathering networks; problems of betrayal of Polish intelligence networks; lack of intelligence about German invasion of Soviet Union, 6/1941; lack of collaboration with Soviet intelligence groups in Baltic States; keeping of intelligence records; campaign to undermine German morale. REEL 6 Continues: concealment of documents in toilet; importance of improvisation in methods.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (recorder)
Miszczak, Franciszek (interviewee/speaker)
Production date: 1988-09-08
Dimensions: whole: Duration 180, Number Of Items 6
Catalogue number: 10349

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Miszczak, Franciszek
Polish Army
Polish Army, Field Artillery Regt, 19
Polish Army, Intelligence Service, Section II
Polish Armed Forces in the West, Home Army (Armia Krajowa)
German Secret Police, Gestapo
Associated places

Germany
Lüben, Lower Silesia, Germany
Poland
Lublin, Lubin Voivodeship, Poland
Warsaw, Warsaw Voivodeship, Poland
Lithunia
Associated keywords

Internment
Resistance
Associated themes

Nazi Europe, 1933-1945

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