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Memoirs by Kazimierz Młyńczak "Biography of Mine"
1944
Polish History Museum
Warszawa, Poland
Kazimierz Młyńczak began noting down his memoirs in 1939, at the detention camp in Rokiszki, Lithuania, but they were stolen from him. The author managed to write them down again in England after WWII. At the beginning of the 1990s, the manuscript was acquired by his brother Witalis, in Poland.
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- Title: Memoirs by Kazimierz Młyńczak "Biography of Mine"
- Date: 1944
- Location: Italy
- Transcript:On 18 April 1944, the arrival from Carpinona to Venafro, as well as preparations for the offensive on Monte Cassino. There were no relaxed meals or sleeping, but there was a lot of talk about life and the future. On the night of 11 May 1944 at 11.00 p.m., I heard the alarm, a great fire of flying and exploding bullets appeared in the sky, coming from all sorts of cannons. An unfading glow lingered in the sky, as there were 700 bullets for each cannon and another 700 in reserve.Hide TranscriptShow Transcript
- Credit: Polish History Museum
- Collection: Młyńczak family
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