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Jacek Kuroń - My desire to fight (19/150)

To listen to more of Jacek Kuroń’s stories, go to the playlist:    • Jacek Kuroń (Social activist)   Polish activist Jacek Kuroń (1934-2004) helped to transform the political landscape of Poland. He was expelled from the communist party, arrested and incarcerated. He was also instrumental in setting up Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) and became a Minister of Labour and Social Policy. [Listener: Jacek Petrycki, Marcel Łoziński; date recorded: 1987] TRANSCRIPT: So, then, for me, the war was mainly about the Jewish issue followed by the desire to fight, a huge desire to fight. I was forever setting up clandestine organisations. I was setting up clandestine organisations, I was taking pamphlets from the house, I once promised one of my clandestine organisations that I'd show them a hand gun because of course I was telling everyone that my father was an activist in an underground organisation as that was my way of organising things. I never did show the hand gun because my friend's mother who, like Kowalikowa, the widow I mentioned earlier, his father was an officer in the POW camp, and she invited my father and told him all about what I was getting up to. What's more she told my father that she was putting herself in his hands because she needed to get hold of some weapons. Later, it turned out that she, too, was a Gestapo informer and was executed as well although that time, my father didn't blame me for her death. So then, there were these various clandestine organisations, and when in Lwów sometime at the very start, I know this from history, the Grey Ranks were only really set up during the German occupation, there was a huge operation and lots of people got caught, so there was the painting of slogans on walls which was done by the Warsaw-based Wawer, but as far as painting slogans went, I and my clandestine organisation did that for a while. We had to leave Lwów pretty quickly and... no, it wasn't like that, sorry, we had to leave pretty quickly because in '44, in '44 my father took me, Felek, my mother and Wacek, one of my first cousins who'd been raised with us because his mother had been deported, the Russians had deported her to Siberia, and we came, and I later lived with my aunt in Zaryto where I carried on trying to fight, blowing up trains. Luckily, I never managed to do that, I'd have probably destroyed - I mean, we tried to disconnect the tracks, to steal explosives from the quarry where I managed to fall down the quarry. Oh yes, there was going to be that uprising. With the uprising I remember I found out at the beginning of August that it had started and I was terribly, completely shocked by it that I wasn't there and that I should have been there. Mind you, I drew the line at running away from home.