Warsaw boy [sound recording] : a memoir of a wartime childhood

Borowiec, Andrew2015

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Subject: Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed. On the 1st of August 1944 Andrew Borowiec, a 15-year-old volunteer in the Resistance, lobbed a grenade from a Warsaw apartment block onto German soldiers below - he felt he had come of age. Over that summer Andrew faced danger at every moment. Wounded the day after his 16th birthday, he was captured as he lay in a makeshift cellar hospital. Here he learned a lesson: there were decent Germans as well as bad. This is an extraordinary tale of survival and defiance.