Witold Zalewski
- Birth Date:
- 04.01.1921
- Death date:
- 04.02.2009
- Length of life:
- 88
- Days since birth:
- 38055
- Years since birth:
- 104
- Days since death:
- 5882
- Years since death:
- 16
- Extra names:
- Witold Zalewski
- Categories:
- Independece fighter, Publicist, WWII participant , Writer
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warsaw, Old Powązki Cemetery
Witold Zalewski (4 January 1921 in Siedlce - 2009) is a Polish writer, publicist and prosaist. During the Occupation of Poland he was a soldier of Armia Krajowa and participated in Warsaw Uprising. Zalewski was associated with conspiratory magazine Dźwigary, editorial board member of weekly magazine Pokolenie (1946–1947), publicist of Przegląd Kulturalny (1952–1963), publicist of Kultura (1963–1970).
In his works, Zalewski refers to war events, his generation, and relations between his generation and socialist realism. He analyses moral choices of war and occupation period. Zalewski is an author of one of the Polish socialist-realist book Traktory zdobędą wiosnę.
Selected works
- Mrok (1943) – debut story published in Dźwigary
- Śmiertelni bohaterowie (1946) – story
- Broń (1948) – novel
- Ranny w lesie (1960)
- Traktory zdobędą wiosnę (1950)
- Pruski mur (1964)
- Splot słoneczny (1972)
- Czarne jagody (1975)
- Dolina Królów (1976) – essay
- Odmiany nadziei (1968)
- Ostatni postój (1979) – novel about January Uprising
- Pożegnanie twierdzy (1985)
- Wysłannik (1988)
- Pożegnanie twierdzy (2000)
- Zakładnicy (2001) – novel with autobiographical elements
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01.08.1944 | Began the Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces.[9] However, the Soviet advance stopped short, enabling the Germans to regroup and demolish the city while defeating the Polish resistance, which fought for 63 days with little outside support. The Uprising was the largest single military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II.