"Kajtek" Jerzy Łakomski passed away on eternal watch

The Warsaw Uprising Museum announced the death of Jerzy Łakomski today. "It is with great sadness that we received the news that Jerzy Łakomski, alias Kajtek, passed away. A friend of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, he was with us during the celebration of the anniversaries of the Uprising and the Uprising Christmas Eve," the museum wrote.

During the German occupation, he was a student at the primary school at ul. Grottger in Warsaw. At that time his name was Jerzy Władysław Baraban. During the Warsaw Uprising, 12-year-old Jerzy belonged to the auxiliary service in the "Baszta" regiment of the Home Army Headquarters. As the Warsaw Uprising Museum reminds, due to his young age, his tasks included supplying the insurgents with food and delivering "sidolówka" - hand grenades produced clandestinely by AK factories - and incendiary bottles to the site of the action, among others. before the insurgents attacked the armored vehicle at ul. Belwederska.

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Jerzy Łakomski was born on March 31, 1932. In an interview for the Oral History Archive of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, he recalled that his parents encouraged him to help the insurgents. Basically, they guided me in such a way that I was a smart boy and that I could go and bring bottles of gasoline and grenades to the "Sidolovka". I went and that's how it started, I joined the insurgents. It was normal for me, he recalled, adding that he felt no fear, only satisfaction.

As the museum reminds, after the capitulation, "Kajtek" and his family were deported to the transit camp in Pruszków, from where, after 10 days, they were transported to Krakow. He was placed in the village of Kaczkowice near Krakow with a Polish host. In March 1945 he returned to Warsaw.