No 1 gets utilized to the ghastly carnival of war as children are at the same time the top casualties. Learning to live by fun, they rapidly admit the deficiency of boundaries between good and evil as normal... And the same communicative continues to be repeated despite its warnings or upper-class “eternal” conventions: wars erupt upon which children die in raids or die of starvation in besieged cities, the enemy takes them into captivity and resold them, and the criminal gives weapons to hands and makes ruthless killers...
When the war broke out in September 1939, Leszek Krajewski was 9 years old. destiny made the tenement he lived in border with the ghetto. So he mentioned this experience with me: “What I say will sound cruel, but after any time I got so utilized to the existence of the ghetto that in winter I even rode alongside his wall and sled wires...”. Playing under this wall or watching it from the flat window, the boy very frequently witnessed terrible events. “One day,” Krajewski recalled, the German gendarmes led a judaic girl – she was possibly 15 years old – and erstwhile they started pushing her through the wires, she hooked up with rags so hard that they could not decision her, so the impatient simply shot her at the scene... Her body tangled in wires hung for a long time until the judaic police officers from the ghetto pulled it off. The life of this kid for the tormentors meant as much as the life of the hare that is being shot at on the hunt.”
And then it exploded. uprising in the ghetto, which – as Leszek Krajewski aptly stated – was a prelude to the demolition of all Warsaw in the autumn of 1944. W Warsaw Uprising Leszek Krajewski lost his mother, became an orphan and soldier, though without a rifle, the group “Chrobry II”. He had a very liable task – he filled the cellar windows, through which the enemies threw grenades to massacre the people protecting themselves there... He became an adult the minute he saw his dead mother, who died from an air bomb blast and inactive looked alive. At this point, he had to decide if he'd quit and wait to die or leave and live to fight... A 14-year-old boy...
These children of war are devoted to this issue of “Polish Armed Forces. History”. Sebastian Pawlina writes about the teenage Warsaw insurgents, the heroic Scouts of the Grey Orders, and prof. Olga Barbasiewicz reveals the inactive unknown destiny of the children of Polish citizens, who found salvation and oasis in the desert of war in far Shanghai. War is frequently ruled by paradoxes, 1 of which is the fact that war orphans or children separated from their families found the best chance of endurance in the military. Soldiers – with permission, and sometimes, despite the orders of their commanders – took in those small unfortunates who became alleged sons of the regiment. 1 of them, Christopher Flyzak, the youngest soldier General Władysław Anders, who after planet War II became a paratrooper in the elite American 101st Airborne Division and participated in the Korean War, writes Colonel Andrzej Łydka. Nor could the past of the Lwowski Orląts be missed in the issue of children in the war – the prof. Juliusz S. This.
John Jakub Kolski, with whom we besides print here, stated: “Please see what the planet looks like today... How he screams present to remind us what that terrible time of war, occupation, the Holocaust... To quit this ease in dealing with death and talking about it. present death is so crude, so cruel and painful that they are talked about at the same level at which they are informed of the weather for the weekend. After that, there is simply a cut and it is reported that so many and so many thousands of people have died in Gaza; again cutting and a fewer minutes for news about the fresh cosmetics, and after that, information about the bombing of Ukrainian cities by Russian rockets, during which people died again... So I think that the natural work of artists, people proceeding and seeing more intensely is to capture the essence of this sound of reality and effort to respond to it." The destiny of children – all children, regardless of the parties to the conflict, should always be kept in head erstwhile we talk about war, think and prepare for it...
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