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Zośka Battalion
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Battalion Zośka was a paramilitary scouts battalion that specialized in field intelligence gathering, irregular warfare and scouting of the Polish resistance movement organisation - Home Army during W
Captured German Panther tank – armored platoon of Battalion Zośka under command of Wacław Micuta
Captured German Panther tank – armored platoon of Battalion Zośka under command of Wacław Micuta
Captured tank
Captured tank
Prisoners of Gęsiówka and the Zośka fighters after the liberation of the camp in August 1944
Prisoners of Gęsiówka and the Zośka fighters after the liberation of the camp in August 1944
Warsaw Uprising 5 August 1944 in Gęsiówka. The men are dressed in captured German uniforms and armed with confiscated German weapons. From left: Wojci
Warsaw Uprising 5 August 1944 in Gęsiówka. The men are dressed in captured German uniforms and armed with confiscated German weapons. From left: Wojciech Omyła "Wojtek", Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski "Laudański" and Tadeusz Milewski "Ćwik". Milewski was killed on the same day. Omyla was killed several days later on 8 August 1944.
Gęsiówka
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Gęsiówka is the colloquial Polish name for a prison that once existed on Gęsia Street in Warsaw, Poland, and which, under German occupation during World War II, became a Nazi concentration camp.
Zośka Battalion
…under the command of Wacław Micuta. The battalion gained the War Order of Virtuti Militari. Zośka fighters liberated prisoners of the concentration camp Gęsiówka in August 1944. The 383 able-bodied prisoners (including 348 Jews), both men and women who were left in Gęsiówka to assist with the destruction of the…
Liberated Jewish women with Polish resistance fighters of the Zośka Battalion, 5 August 1944
Liberated Jewish women with Polish resistance fighters of the Zośka Battalion, 5 August 1944
View from a tower of St. Augustine Church on Nowolipki 18 Street towards Warsaw Ghetto. In front ruins on Pawia Street behind them surrounded by high
View from a tower of St. Augustine Church on Nowolipki 18 Street towards Warsaw Ghetto. In front ruins on Pawia Street behind them surrounded by high wall with watch towers, is the west side of the Gesiowka prison. The Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street is visible in the background on the left behind Gesiowka prison. Spring 1945
Soldiers of the Wacek armored platoon of the Zośka Battalion, corner of Okopowa and Żytnia Streets, 2 August 1944
Soldiers of the Wacek armored platoon of the Zośka Battalion, corner of Okopowa and Żytnia Streets, 2 August 1944