warsaw uprising Parasol battalion
Soldiers from the “Parasol” battalion (note the homemade cap badge) after leaving the canal on Warecka Street (Śródmieście-Północ) during the Warsaw Uprising. In the middle stands Maria Stypułkowska-Chojecka “Kama”. On the right Krzysztof Palester “Krzych.” A force made up largely of 75 scouts, the unit had pulled off several actions such as the targeted assassinations of SS-Hauptscharführer August Kretschmann and Sipo commander Franz Bürkl in September 1943, before the Uprising. Its members included poet Józef Szczepański, who was killed in action in September 1944, aged 21.