Testimonies — French remembrance in Poland

Accounts and memories of those who lived or keep alive the Franco-Polish memory — resistance fighters, exiles, prisoners, families and descendants.

Fighter of the Polish Home Army (AK) · Warsaw insurgent, 1944
Georges Szumanski

1924 Second World War

“I was 18 and my nerves were steady.” A fighter of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) and a mine-clearance specialist, Georges Szumanski fought in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising before going into exile in France. This is his testimony.
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