Dialogue and Universalism

Volume 16, Issue 7/9, 2006

Europeization and Universalization of the Tragism and Meanings of the Warsaw Uprisings of 1943 and 1944

Life Saved a Hundred Times

The author recounts the dramatic life of Warsaw’s population during the uprising against the Germans. After miraculously escaping death in a mass execution, Czarkowski teamed up with several other men and lived the hard life of a refugee among the city’s ruins. He and his companions continuously risked death, both from the hands of Nazi execution squads as well as in the buildings, methodically demolished by the occupant as the city was razed to the ground in revenge for the insurgency.