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Andrzej Romocki, codename Morro (April 16, 1923 - September 15, 1944) was a Polish Scoutmaster who attained the rank of captain in the Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army) during World War II. He was the commander of the Rudy Company and, after August 31, 1944, the whole of the Zośka Battalion.
Romocki died in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, at the age of 21.
Tadeusz Sumiński, a soldier from "Zośka" recalls: "We are standing behind a small house against the wall facing the Vistula river. Morro comes out alone, completely uncovered and out in the open, approaching the seemingly deserted German trenches. For a moment he stops, facing the bridge. It is getting light. A single shot from a rifle can be heard. Morro falls down on the ground. - Oh my God! - Śpioch tears himself away from the wall and begins to crawl in Morro's direction. He is almost halfway from him. The second bullet hits the ground right before Śpioch's head. Suddenly, Zosia turns up. Without thinking she runs to Amorek, we are trying to stop her. She tears herself loose. She kneels down beside him. She is completely uncovered and turns Andrzej over. - I can't find the wound!...(...) She is still searching for the wound, without success. In any case, it is unnecessary: Morro is dead."
Stanisław Sieradzki ''My meetings with Morro'': "(...) Early, on June 28, 1940 Andrzej's father, who was his great friend, was killed by a German car. Andrzej was left with his mother and a younger brother Janek. Andrzej was very even-tempered. I rarely could see him smiling. He was always contemplative. I particularly remember a day when I was wounded nearby the Polonia stadium, on August 22. I was brought to an insurgent hospital in the Mlawska street. Andrzej visited me there. He did it like a good protector, like my commander. I will not forget his sad face till the end of my life. During fights in the Old Town Andrzej experienced his personal tragedy - the death of his younger brother Janek "Bonawentura". He was fighting further on, commanding as bravely as never before.''
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Jan Romocki, codename: Bonawentura (April 17, 1925 – August 18, 1944) was a Polish Scoutmaster, Second Lieutenant of AK-Szare Szeregi, poet and younger brother of fellow resistance figure Andrzej "Morro" Romocki.
Jan Romocki completed secondary school in the underground in 1943 during WWII. He joined the conspiracy in 1941, the Grey Ranks in 1942 and the legendary battalion Zośka in 1943. His underground pseudonym (and middle name) was, quite fittingly, Bonawentura, after the medieval scholastic theologian. What survived from his poetry deals mainly with issues of Christianity and his poems are deeply seeped in Catholic ethics.
Romocki died - at the age of 19 - in a hospital at 23 Miodowa Street during the Warsaw Uprising, after it was bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
Stanisław Sieradzki ''My meetings with Morro'': "My wounded friend, lying in a hospital in the Miodowa street, wanted to boast that a great poet was situated next to him. Someone in the hospital found Janek's poems. ''You've got no idea next to whom I'm lying!" And then I saw Janek whom I had not known before. When I stood by a bed on which Janek "Bonawentura" was lying, I could not believe from the very beginning, that we could survive. Poor Janek, with his stomach wounded, with his spine hurt. He was speaking just a little, sad and poor. Then I got to know that my friend was coming back with me to the hospital named after Jan Bozy. I was to go to the hospital again on August 18, in the evening and I was told that the hospital had been bombarded. I was free then so I rushed there. The boys were lying on the second floor. Both this floor and this building were simply non-existing. Everything had crushed. Nothing was left from the room where Janek "Bonawentura" and my friend Janek Zastawny were lying. Everything was crushed.''
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