![]() The Polish underground resistance launched their attack on the German army. On 1 August 1944 the Warsaw Uprising began. He began training for more aggressive action and took the code name of Rys. Ryszard became a courier and distributed hundreds of anti-Nazi leaflets. ![]() After the German attack they became part of the Polish underground resistance. A scouting organisation which organised camping trips and survival training. The Young Eaglesīefore the war Ryszard had joined the Young Eagles. Warsaw was in ruins and their home was destroyed. They arrived in Warsaw a few days after the heavy bombing of the 25 September. They turned the cart around and headed back to Warsaw. Before they got there the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east on the 17 September. The family fled Warsaw on a horse drawn cart and headed for the Romanian border. German planes bombed Warsaw where he was living as a 13 year old with his parents. Ryszard recalls the outbreak of war on 1 September 1939. She started by asking him what his first memories of the war were. She had immersed herself in the history of Poland and World War 2 and had many questions to ask him. Rita arranged to visit her father at his home in Virginia. Rita asked herself what horrors had her father endured before he emigrated to America. The identity card had the name Ryszard Kossobudzki on it.
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