A new addition (once it arrives from Warsaw) to my small AK collection, a little piece of history from the Warsaw Rising. I know I paid far too much to acquire this little painted cardboard piece of history but the story behind it is a poignant one...the more so as the 70th anniversary of the ill-fated Warsaw Rising is just weeks away.
Made by one of the nurses in a Home Army field hospital at ul. Wspólna 27 during the Rising 1944 this cardboard ryngraf was hung by a piece of string over the bed of a young AK soldier, Włodzimierz "Korybut" Michalkiewicz, who was seriously wounded in the stomach. "Korybut" was cared for by an equally young nurse but sadly the soldier died after five days, which affected the nurse looking after him very deeply.
After the capitulation of Warsaw the nurse was deported to Germany as a PoW and some time later to a PoW camp in Belgium, she managed to keep the ryngraf with her throughout that time - and for the rest of her life after the end of WWII. The ryngraf featured in an article about the AK nurse and her story in the Polish press so once I get hold of a copy I will post the full story in the thread with some better photos of the little handmade and painted ryngraf.
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Kapral podchorąży. Włodzimierz "Korybut" Michalkiewicz
Okręg Warszawski Armii Krajowej -I Obwód "Radwan" (Śródmieście)- 3. Rejon "Ratusz - Wojskowa Służba Ochrony Powstania - VI zgrupowanie WSOP - batalion "Bełt"
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