European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

My name is Stanisław Baranowski.

I was born on 16th November 1924 in Warsaw.

If the war had not broken out, I would have gone to aircraft and mechanical school to become a pilot.

It was my dream.

In 1939 I was at the scout camp.

In August we were coming back from the scout camp.

We did not reach the Main Station in Warsaw but we were disembarked at the East Station.

I was, belonged to 42nd Warsaw Scout Team in Rózana Street.

Our cooperation started in the scouts.

Colleagues from the scouts, the same as me,

I remember those names, it was Mietek Wiącek, Heniek Balas, Stefan Wojakowski, Tadeusz Jagier, Jozef Smółka, Leszek Janiszewski and many, many other scouts.

We started from the beginning with the meetings and organizing.

At some moment, I do not know from where it came, somebody said

that our team had been joined to headquarters of Warsaw defence,

which was based in Myśliwski Palace in Łazienki Królewskie,

here, the entry from 29 Listopada Street.

We got there, a few of us.

We were classified as a runner, a guider in Warsaw.

Because the army units staying then in Warsaw,

those were soldiers, who did not know Warsaw.