Z powstańczej Warszawy do Francji. Historia zapamiętana (1927–1957)

From insurgent Warsaw to France. History remembered (1927–1957)

It is a memoir of Aleksander Uszyński, a rank-and-file soldier of the Polish underground army, a participant of the Warsaw Uprising, a German prisoner of war and a political emigrant in the post-war years. It frankly portrays his happy childhood in independent Poland, the tragedy of the outbreak of war, the motivation to join the underground, episodes of serving in the underground army and in the Warsaw Uprising. The memoir also describes his experiences in France when he had to make up for his educational limitations from the war time and adapt to a society that was new to him.

Keywords: Aleksander Uszyński, Villards, Stalag Lamsdorf, Warsaw Uprising, Lycée Polonais Cyprian Norwid in Villard-de-Lans, Chrobry II Battalion, National Armed Forces.

Aleksander Uszyński – w latach 1939-1944 żołnierz Narodowych Sił Zbrojnych w konspiracji, kapral podchorąży Armii Krajowej zgrupowania "Chrobry II" podczas Powstania Warszawskiego 1944 roku, niemiecki jeniec wojenny obozu w Łambinowicach na Śląsku, w okresie powojennym polityczny emigrant we Francji.