Bohdan Hryniewicz

My Boyhood War (eBook, ePUB)

Warsaw, 1944

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bohdan Hryniewicz was only 8 when war broke out and 13 when it ended. In those years he saw more than most men would in 10 lifetimes; and his recall is extraordinary. He cites three days as defining this period: the saddest, 19 September 1939 as Russian tanks rolled into his home town of Wilno; the happiest, August 1 1944, when the Polish flag flew once again from the highest building in Warsaw; the most bitter, October 3 that year, when his commanding officer forbade him to join the other members of his battalion as they entered a prisoner of war camp. The Warsaw Uprising lasted 63 days and was the largest single military effort by any resistance movement in the war. Throughout, Bohdan was the personal runner of lieutenant Nalecz, CO of the battalion of the same name. Betrayed by Stalin, all the Poles were expelled to camps after surrender and the city dynamited. Bohdan is probably the last witness to this tragedy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750964746
• Artikelnr.: 42616022

Autorenporträt

Bohdan Hryniewicz is the first-time author of MY BOYHOOD WAR, WARSAW 1944, a deeply touching memoir centered on the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944, the longest urban battle between lightly armed irregular forces and the most advanced military power of the time. Born in Vilnius (Wilno) in 1931, Bohdan Hryniewicz was only eight years old when World War II began and the Russians invaded his home time. After Germany invaded Russia in March 1943, Bohdan's family moved to Warsaw. When the Uprising broke out he and his older brother Andrzej joined the Underground Boy Scouts and became runners. During the 63 days of combat Bohdan was in the midst of the heaviest fighting in the Old City, escaping through the sewers. He was awarded the Cross of Valor and promoted to the rank of corporal. After capitulation and the end of the war Bohdan and his mother Janina, escaped from Poland, making their way to England in 1947 and then the United States in 1950. In the US, Bohdan obtained a degree in civil engineering at the Newark College of Engineering, continued graduate studies at MIT, and pursued a successful entrepreneurial career during which he lived in Boston, San Juan, and Stockholm. After the fall of communism in Poland Bohdan was appointed as Honorary Consul of Poland in Puerto Rico, a position that he held from 1994-2008. Upon his retirement he was awarded the Commander Cross, with Star, of the Order of Merit by the President of Poland. Bohdan was married for 42 years to Linda Kelly with whom he had four children. He now resides in Sarasota, Florida with his wife Anne Olshansky.