Dąbrowski, Dariusz Apoloniusz (Oral history)

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Description

Object description

Polish officer cadet served with the 81st Grodno Rifles Regt, 29th Grodno Infantry Div, Polish Army in Poland, 9/1939; internee in Lithuania, 9/1939-12/1939; served with Union of Armed Struggle and Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Warsaw, Poland, 3/1940-7/1944; served with Baszta Regt, Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) during Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, 8/1944-10/1944; prisoner of War in Germany, 10/1944-4/1945

Content description

REEL 1 Recollections of operations as officer cadet with 81st Grodno Rifles Regt, 29th Grodno Infantry Div, Polish Army in Poland, 9/1939: false alarms prior to German attack; German targeting of Grodno; attitude of peasant working nearby during German attacks; reaction to German-Soviet Partition agreement; confusing orders given to unit; sight of local Communist Byelorussian militia; attempts to return to Grodno; sight of Soviet Army tanks in Wilno; plan to attack Soviet Army tanks with grenades. REEL 2 Continues: escape from Soviet Army tanks; plan to cross into Lithuania; suicides of Polish officers; evasion of Soviet tanks on route to Grodno; capture by Soviet Army troops; separation of officers and other ranks by Soviet Army; his escape from captivity. Aspects of period as internee in Lithuania, 9/1939-12/1939: problems crossing into Lithuania; failure to get to France; decision to escape with impending Soviet occupation of Lithuania; hostility of peasants towards Poles; crossing Lithuanian border into occupied Poland, 12/1939. REEL 3 Continues: Recollections of period as officer with Union of Armed Struggle and Baszta Regt, Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Warsaw, Poland, 3/1940-7/1944: reaction to behaviour of Germans on return to occupied Poland; initial problems in believing brutal nature of Nazi regime; farm work in East Prussia, early 1940; arrest by Gestapo; decision of Gestapo to release him; joining Union of Armed Struggle, 3/1940; character of Baszta Regt of Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa); his belief that Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) could only fight Germans for a short time; narrow escape from Germans in occupied Warsaw. REEL 4 Continues: tension of working for Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa); opinion of accuracy of television series 'Secret Army' in depicting life under German occupation; signal his mother arranged to indicate danger; a failed bank robbery attempted by Polish Resistance, summer 1943; question of impossibility of aiding Jews in Warsaw Ghetto, 1943; Gestapo method of rounding up Jews on streets; story of narrow escape during Gestapo round up in Warsaw. REEL 5 Continues: Recollections of operations as officer with Baszta Regt, Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) during Warsaw Uprising, Warsaw, Poland, 8/1944-10/1944: plan to capture German Air Force fort in Mokotów area; decimation of his unit attacking fort; reconnaissance of area around fort after failed attack; occupying positions in buildings; his wounding, 25/9/1944; escape through sewers; conditions in sewers. REEL 6 Continues: escape from anoxia poisoning in sewers; German guard on exit from sewers in Wikza Street; temporary loss of sight from chemicals in sewers; escape from burning flats; hearing news of surrender of Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) and decision to go to German prisoner of war camp; German brutality towards Polish civilian population in Warsaw. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Germany, 10/1944-5/1945: nature of wounds and receiving medical treatment; liberation by United States Army, 5/1945. Aspects of operations as officer with Baszta Regt, Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) during Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, 8/1944-10/1944: problems of Western Allies aiding uprising; attempt of Polish troops fighting with Soviet forces to cross River Vistula; an Australian evader who took part in uprising.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (recorder)
Dąbrowski, Dariusz Apoloniusz (interviewee/speaker)
Production date: 1988-10-15
Dimensions: whole: Duration 170, Number Of Items 6
Catalogue number: 10450

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Associated people and organisations

Dąbrowski, Dariusz Apoloniusz
Polish Army
Polish Army, Grodno Rifles Regt, 81
Polish Army, Infantry Div, 29 Grodno
Resistance, Polish
Resistance, Polish, Union of Armed Struggle
Polish Armed Forces in the West, Home Army (Armia Krajowa)
Polish Armed Forces in the West, Home Army (Armia Krajowa), Regt, Baszta
Ghetto, Warsaw, Poland
German Secret Police, Gestapo
Soviet Army
Associated places

Poland
Warsaw, Warsaw Voivodeship, Poland
Mokotów, Warsaw, Warsaw Voivodeship, Poland
Wilno, Wilno Voivoidship, Poland
Grodno, Bialystok Voivodeship, Poland
River Vistula, Poland
Lithunia
Germany
East Prussia, Germany
England, United Kingdom
Associated keywords

Resistance
Associated themes

Nazi Europe, 1933-1945

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Dąbrowski, Dariusz Apoloniusz (Oral history)

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