Generowicz, Bohdan

Date of birth:: February 1st, 1928 (Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland)
Date of death:: August 15th, 2012
Service number:: 51764
Nationality:: Polish (1918-1939, IInd Republic)

Biography

Service number 51764, Armia Krajowa.

Bohdan Generowicz was born in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland on 1 February 1928. He moved to Warsaw in 1934. He was in Warsaw right through the siege in September 1939 and through the German occupation, when he continued his secondary education, risking his neck, under cover. He joined the Polish Home Army in March 1944 and took part in the Warsaw Uprising, 1 August - 26 September 1944, in the southern part of Warsaw called Mokotow. After capitulation, He became a POW (nr. 221715) in Stalag XB, Sandbostel from early October 1944 to 31 January 1945, when he was sent to a labour commando in Hamburg-Neuenfelde, to work in a small shipyard in the carpenter's shop. In late April 1945 Bohdan and other prisoners were evacuated by foot north of Hamburg, towards the Danish border and ended up at a village called Grossenaspe, 11 km from Neumuenster, where they were liberated by British forces. Bohdan then travelled south to the Polish forces in Italy, where he joined the 1-st Cavalry regiment and was able to continue his secondary education in one of several schools set up by the Polish military, using pre-war high school teachers, who had been called up in 1939 as reserve officers and spent the war in the Oflag at Murnau. After shipment to Britain in 1946 and demobilisation in February 1948, he studied civil engineering at London University, graduating in 1952. He was married in 1957 to a Polish girl, who had just finished medicine at University of Leeds and, in due course, they had two sons. In 1968, seeking better life and future for their children, they emigrated to Perth, Western Australia, where they are still living today. Bohdan has written a autobiography, titled "History's Pawn", published by Serendipity Publishers, London.

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