Volume 16, Issue 7/9, 2006
Europeization and Universalization of the Tragism and Meanings of the Warsaw Uprisings of 1943 and 1944
Jan Strzelecki
Pages 27-34
Memory of the Uprising
The author recounts his part in the Warsaw Uprising through the prism of general human concepts like brotherhood, death, faith, freedom, memory, etc. in an attempt to show what such ideals meant for his comrades in battle and himself, how they functioned in later years—and how they influenced his generation's world outlook and life. For Strzelecki the Warsaw Uprising stood in defense of supreme human values, was a necessity without which there would have been no hope of survival either for human values or the Polish nation.