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Ibid., p. 267.

26
.
Czesław Miłosz,
Native Realm: a Search for Self-definition
(London, 1988), p. 247.

27
.
Krzysztof Kamil Baczy
ski, ‘Historia’, in
Ty jeste
moje imi
. . .
ed. Małgorzata Baranowska (Warsaw, 1995), pp. 34-5.

28
.
An exploit of Prof. Jan Zachwatowicz.

29
.
Jan Stanisław Jankowski, ‘Sable’, Chief Delegate and Vice Premier, Kunert,
Sbkw
, I, pp. 88-90: later defendant at the Moscow Trial.

30
.
K Leski,
ycie niewła
ciwie urozmaicone
(Warsaw, 1989).

31
.
Jan Kozielewicz, ‘Karski’ (1914-93),
The Story of a Secret State
(London, 1944): see also
E. T. Wood,
Karski
:
how one man tried to stop the Holocaust
(London, 1994).

32
.
Zdzisław Jeziora
ski, ‘Jan Nowak’ (b. 1913):
Courier from Warsaw
(London, 1982):
Wojna w eterze: wspomnienia
(London, 1985).

33
.
J. Lerski,
Emisariusz JUR
(London, 1984).

34
.
J. Szatsznajder,
Cichociemni
(Wrocław, 1985), pp. 134–5.

35
.
Author’s correspondence with Mr Andrzej Suchcitz.

36
.
Szatsznajder, op. cit., p. 61.

37
.
Bolesław Kontrym, ‘Biały’, ‘
mudzin’,
etc.
(1898–1953): Kunert,
Sbkw
, II, pp. 93–95. A memorial tablet has been placed in the Holy Cross Church, Warsaw.

38
.
After Jerzy Lerski, op. cit., pp. 76–9. According to Lerski, Col. Perkins, who had lived in Bielsko Biała before the war, made a further comment about how pleased he was to learn that Soviet as well as German losses on the Eastern Front were ‘swelling nicely’. After leaving Warsaw in January 1944, Lerski travelled by train to Paris on the false papers of a German engineer from Estonia, before walking across the Pyrenees to Gibraltar. He then worked as the private secretary to Tomasz Arciszewski, the Socialist Prime Minister of the Polish Government in London.

39
.
Order 84, 22 January 1943, quoted by Ney-Krwawicz, op. cit., p. 41.

40
.
T. Strzembosz,
Akcje zbrojne podziemnej Warszawy, 1939–44
(Warsaw, 1978), pp. 130–31.

41
.
Ibid., passim.

42
.
Ibid.

43
.
Ibid.

44
.
Ibid., pp. 130–31.

45
.
8 November 1943. The Polish officer was Maj. Kontrym. Szatsznajder, op. cit., pp. 56–7.

46
.
On Zhegota, Teresa Prekerowa,
Konspiracyjna Rada Pomocy
ydom w Warszawie
(Warsaw, 1992); Irene Tomaszewski,
egota: the rescue of Jews in Wartime Poland
(Montreal, 1994); W. Bartoszewski,
Los
ydów Warszawy
(Warsaw, 1993).

47
.
Much of the clandestine Polish press was collected by the exiled Government in London, and is available in the Sikorski Museum.

48
.
The activities of the Polish–British Historical Commission, which was due to report in 2003, may be followed on <
http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/kronika
>.

49
.
Józef Garli

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