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Witold Modelski

Polish soldier

Witold Stefan Modelski (11 November , Warsaw – 20 September , Warsaw), pseudonym "Warszawiak", was a participant of Warsaw Uprising, a liaison officer in the Gozdawa Battalion, and the youngest[citation needed] (not quite 12 years old) participant in the Uprising fights.

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He was awarded the Polish Cross of Valour.

Life story

During the Second World War, after the Modelski family's house on Nowy Świat Street had burnt down, all the family moved to Leszno Street, where Witold had been cared for by his mother Jadwiga Maria Modelska until the Warsaw Uprising broke out.

At the beginning of August , Witold Modelski joined the Parasol Battalion, a part of the Radosław Group, precisely the 4th platoon of the 1st company.

When the Wola district collapsed, he transferred to The North Group, a part of the Gozdawa Battalion – Sosna section[note 1], located in Warsaw Old Town[note 2]. Witold Modelski ended his martial fate on Czerniaków in the Parasol Battalion[note 3].[1]

Modelski was uncommonly brave.

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On 23 August , he was awarded the Cross of Valour and promoted to corporal. He died on 20 September on the Czerniaków Coast, in home on Wilanowska Street 1.

After the war, his mother, with the help of female emergency medical technicians from the Polish Red Cross, tracked down her son's body during the soldiers exhumation on the Upper Czerniaków Uprising.[clarification needed] Under the cover of night she transported Witold on the Powązki Military Cemetery and buried him near the cemetery wall on her own.

Only after several years later was his body moved into the plot reserved for soldiers and emergency medical technicians from the Parasol Battalion.[2] The exact destination of his grave is the quarter A[3]

His martial fate was described in books written by Zbigniew Wróblewski, such as Bakwiri z ulicy Leszno (English: Bakwiri from the Leszno Street) and Z jednego domu (English: From the same home), where there are numerous substantial mistakes, also including a myth that his family had allegedly fallen already in [4]

Witold Modelski is the patron of the Little Insurrectionist Hall in Warsaw Uprising Museum.[5]

Notes

  1. ^Polish: Sosna → English: Pine
  2. ^Precisely he joined to the 2nd onslaughting company.
  3. ^Back then a part of „Broda 53” Diversion Brigade.

References

  1. ^Powstańcze Biogramy - Witold Modelski, wwwpl, retrieved
  2. ^Powstańcze Biogramy - Jadwiga Modelska, wwwpl, retrieved : CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. ^Wyszukiwarka cmentarna - Warszawskie cmentarze (in Polish),
  4. ^Bakwiri z ulicy Leszno, , , retrieved
  5. ^4.

    Sala Małego Powstańca, Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego, , retrieved

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