Scouts Forever Doc

Documentary Scouts Forever. The story of Polish scouts that risked their lives for their country's freedom during WWII.

[Scouts Forever Doc @ScoutsDoc]

Huge thanks to the Polish Film Institute (@PISF) for selecting our documentary for the "Post-production of minority international co-productions" program. We’re honored and excited to move forward. https://t.co/hz4hch8dWM @DianelaUrdaneta

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[British Poles @britishpoles]

A great Polish Hero Kazimierz Piechowski escaped from the German death camp Auschwitz in 1942 along with 3 other prisoners.
They were dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, fully armed in a stolen SS staff car, in which they drove out through the "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate.
They carried a report that Witold Pilecki had written for Armia Krajowa headquarters.
Piechowski was a soldier in the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) then a prisoner for seven years of the communist regime of Poland.
Read more: https://t.co/ZEB6XIyDeU

[Institute of National Remembrance @ipngovpl_eng]

The fate of those who heroically defended the Polish Post Office in Gdańsk in September 1939 and survived as German prisoners was tragic. Thirty-eight Poles were court-martialled as illegal combatants, sentenced to death and executed #OTD in🗓1939.

In breach of all the rules, including international law, twenty-eight postal workers were court-martialled on 8 September 1939, and the remaining ten on 30 September.

After the war, Dr Hans-Werner Giesecke and Dr Kurt Bode, both responsible for the judicial murder of the postal workers, continued to work in the German judiciary. Giesecke became head of the State Court of Hesse in Frankfurt am Main. He died in 1971. Bode became a judge and then Deputy President of the Higher National Court in Bremen. He died in 1979.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

Adolf Hitler visited Warsaw only once. He came to witness the German army victorious parade held in the Polish capital on 5 October 1939.
100 miles away, in Kock, the Polish Army was still fighting.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

On 26 September 1946, the Stalinist regime in occupied Poland deprived of Polish citizenship 76 high-ranking officers of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, among others generals Władysław Anders, Stanisław Maczek, Stanisław Sosabowski.

[Kolor Historii - Mikołaj Kaczmarek🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 @KolorHistorii]

🇵🇱Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944

Na zdjęciu: strzelec Karol Lewandowski „Karolek”,
17 lat, ze Zgrupowania „Żniwiarz”.
Uchwycony przez obiektyw przed domem przy ul. Mickiewicza 34, Żoliborz.

Przeszedł przez niewolę, walczył w II Korpusie, życie zakończył w Holandii.
Ale tu – w tej jednej chwili – był symbolem młodości, którą wojna zmusiła do dorosłości.

📷fot. Stefan Lewandowski / Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego

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This #WarsawUprising medic Róża Goździewska, born 31 March 1936, was just EIGHT when she reported for duty.

In a Home Army field hospital she brought the wounded water, and that smile of hers must've taken away some of the pain.

Róża survived WW2 and died in 1989.

[Institute of National Remembrance @ipngovpl_eng]

In WW2, Witold Pilecki voluntarily entered German KL Auschwitz to organize resistance and gather intelligence.

After the war, the communists ruling Poland put him on trial and, sentenced to death #OTD in 1948, and executed a few weeks later.

His remains have never been found.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

#OTD in 1940, 140,000 Polish civilians were deported to Siberia in the first of four mass deportations carried out by the NKVD between February 1940 and June 1941. Many of them perished from starvation, disease, and brutal forced labour. In total, up to 1.5 million Polish citizens, including over 200,000 prisoners of war, were exiled to the Soviet Gulags.
Let us never forget their suffering!
https://t.co/PxQUMoZ2bN

[British Poles @britishpoles]

The map of German-occupied Europe: the death and concentration camps are marked in black, while the ghettos in grey.
Today, is International #HolocaustRemembranceDay and the anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, which took place #OTD in 1945.
#WeRemember

[Scouts Forever Doc @ScoutsDoc]

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz80 we honor survivor Stanislaw Ciszewski. He was a member of #group of #scouts from #Grochow in #Warsaw that were part of the #resistance against #Nazis during the occupation of #Poland in #WWII. https://t.co/S23PQFPMPz

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Through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. helped move this country forward. As we honor his legacy today, let’s remember the lesson he taught us: that even in the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can help change it. In honor of #MLKDay, I hope you’ll do what you can in your community to create a better future for us all.

[Scouts Forever Doc @ScoutsDoc]

If a tax deduction is not important, you can donate directly trough the film’s webpage: https://t.co/am9xT5BwbF
We appreciate you support through out all these years and we hope to celebrate the completion of this documentary in 2024.
Happy holidays and a wonderful new year!

[Scouts Forever Doc @ScoutsDoc]

After several years of delays and setbacks, including the challenges of the global pandemic, we are excited to share that production is back in full swing. This important story deserves to be told, and the commitment to honoring these scouts' memories burns stronger than ever.

[Scouts Forever Doc @ScoutsDoc]

As the end to the year approached we are asking for your financial support. We have a Fiscal Sponsorship from Women in Film and Video in WashingtonDC and your donations will be tax deductible. https://t.co/JPEVjkaf1G go to Programs/ Fiscal Sponsorship

[Scouts Forever Doc @ScoutsDoc]

Life often has its own plans, and our journey in creating Doc Scouts Forever has been no exception. The global pandemic forced a pause in our production but we are back in Warsaw, working in the post-production and actively pursuing new funding opportunities.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

#OTD in 1940, Winston Churchill delivered his famous speech "The Few" in the @HouseofCommons, praising the heroism and bravery of @RoyalAirForce crews.
2,937 legendary pilots risked their lives for freedom in the summer of 1940. 145 of them were Polish.
303 Polish Squadron was the most successful Fighter Command unit in the #BattleOfBritain. Poles shot down 126 German planes in only 42 days.
Read more: https://t.co/mOa78m5sDa

[Institute of National Remembrance @ipngovpl_eng]

Zofia Kossak was born #OTD in 1889.
She was a writer, who co-founded the Polish Council to Aid Jews “Żegota” for which she was proclaimed a Righteous Among the Nations by @yadvashem. Zofia joined the #WarsawUprising after escaping from German imprisonment.
She survived the war.