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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 8665760, member: 649&quot;]Thank you!</p><p>I, too, have thought it would make an excellent movie. A few Polish movies have been made on the subject but I think the story/stories would even appeal to non-Polish audiences. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_44" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_44" rel="nofollow">Warsaw 44</a></i> (2014) is about young people in the Uprising, though not specifically the Scouts. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana%C5%82" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana%C5%82" rel="nofollow">Kanal</a></i> (1957) is about the resistance fighters and the use of the sewers, though again it is not specifically about the Scouts.</p><p>[EDIT: I have now found that <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stones_for_the_Rampart_(film)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stones_for_the_Rampart_(film)" rel="nofollow">Battle for Warsaw/Stones for the Rampart</a></i> was also made into a movie in 2014. So glad to find this, I had long been searching for an English translation of the book! It&#039;s story does center on the Szare Szeregi.]</p><p>Dad was a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BByrafa_Group" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BByrafa_Group" rel="nofollow">Zyrafa </a>(&quot;Giraffe&quot;) group, who moved supplies, ammunition, and people through the sewers under Warsaw. They are/were often referred to - proudly - as &quot;sewer rats&quot;. At 16yo, he was one of the older scouts and he also had rifleman duties. He was captured at the end of the August 1944 Uprising and spent the last year of WW2 (and his 17th birthday) in a German prisoner of war camp.</p><p>Dad never told us (myself and my 3 siblings) stories about those days, but he actually seemed to come out unscathed, emotionally. No issues with nightmares, loud noises, etc. But, he was always strongly against guns in the home. We never had any and he and my brothers were not hunters. I do remember him saying that he&#039;d &quot;seen enough of guns and shooting&quot;. Fishing, however, was frequent!</p><p>He is pictured on a commemorative plaque in Zoliborz, an area of Warsaw. That&#039;s dad, the last boy in line on the left of the photo. All the boys are dressed and ready to descend into the sewers.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Here, next to the tram tracks, near the intersection of Krasinskiego and Ks. J. Poplieluszki there is a manhole to the sewers which during the Warsaw Uprising were the communication routes of Zoliborz with the Old Town and Downtown.&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]428619[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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