Draft:Henryk "Baconman" Grabrowski

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Henryk "Baconman" Grabrowski (? - ?), a Polish resistant fighter, a member of ZOB, under the German-occupied Poland during the World War II.

Grabrowki (pseudonym, Henryk "Baconman") owned a bacon and meat stand. He managed to get a few hundred kilos of saltpeter and wood coal to make the explosives for ZOB fighters, and also 200 grams of cyanide for suicide in case of Jews' arrest, with the collaboration of Jurek Wilner.

He personally rescured Jurek Wilner who was arrested by Germans in the first week of March 1943. He located Jurek, kept in a camp in the Grochów district, and tortured by Germans for a month. He swam across the swamps, and got Jurek out.

After the World War II, Henryk Grabrowki initially had a repair garage, then a tax cab. Later he worked in transportation, as a clerk in the technical department.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Krall, Hanna (1986). Shielding the Flame -- An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-03-006002-8.