Word: dziepatowski
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Karski had belonged to an association that lectured to the peasants on literature, history, hygiene. The peasants were mildly interested in Karski's lectures. But they loved the intense, gifted, frail young high-school student who went with him and played the violin after his talk. This was Dziepatowski. He was now an executioner for the underground...
...Dziepatowski was 21 or 22. Through other members of the underground he got Karski false papers. Karski was now Kucharski, born in Luki, in poor health, a primary-school teacher. He was sent to a photographer in a poor district, given a photograph that was enough like him to be claimed as his, but vague enough to be disowned if necessary. For two weeks Karski waited, memorizing the new story of his life...
...dwarfed by the depthless misery and heroism of the people they served. When Story of a Secret State is not an adventure story, it is often hackneyed. When it tells of flight, pursuit, escape, triumph, it carries conviction in every incident. Its killings are coldblooded, its sorrows without tears. Dziepatowski, Karski's violinist friend, was caught and executed after he had killed a German agent in a Warsaw washroom. Borecki was caught, could not get the poison from his signet ring in time. He too was killed...
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