i am finally decorating this after A YEAR holy shit
this has gifs from "kamienie na szaniec" that i dont really like but whatever. where do i find "akcja pod arsenalem" gifswtf.. this is gonna be so long but whatever.. wip... also chceck /aleksy and /diversion to read about me swooning over alek

„kamienie na szaniec" by aleksander kaminski
“kamienie na szaniec” is a story shaped by war, friendship and the kind of loyalty that doesn’t break, even when everything else does. it follows three real boys — alek, rudy and zoska — wandering through occupied warsaw with the same courage they once carried into their scouting adventures. except now the stakes are life and death.
they start as normal teens with plans, dreams and inside jokes, but the war pulls them into the shadows of the underground. in the szare szeregi, they learn to turn fear into action: running secret messages through the city, sabotaging what they can, carving small pieces of freedom out of a place that has forgotten what light looks like.
the story’s heartbeat is rudy’s arrest. his friends refuse to let him disappear into the silence of gestapo walls. operation arsenal becomes their answer: a rescue born from love, loyalty and that reckless kind of bravery only young people can afford to have.
in the end, the book isn’t just about the war. it’s about how friendship becomes a lifeline, how values survive even in chaos, and how three boys turned their youth into something fierce and unforgettable.

"if you were to leave, my better self would leave with you. whatever good i have done is because of you. you are my goodness, my dew, my rain, my friend... yesterday, today, and tomorrow. no matter what happens to us..."
maciej aleksy dawidowski "alek" born on the 3rd of nov. 1920, died on the 30th of mar. 1943
the information below is partly pasted from my rentry about alek only
during the war in 1941, alek joined the grey ranks. it was a time when they were active in the small sabotage organization “wawer”, and one of his most famous actions was the removal of the german plaque from the monument of nicolaus copernicus - that’s where his nickname “kopernicki” originated from. in retaliation for the removal of the plaque, the germans removed the monument of jan kilinski and deposited it in the underground of the national museum. alek managed to determine the hiding place of the monument, he placed a poster on the pedestal of the copernicus monument: in retaliation for the destruction of the kilinski monument, i order to extend the winter by 6 weeks, nicolaus copernicus astronomer. stickers with such content also appeared on governor fischer’s announcements about the dismantling of the kilinski monument.
unfortunately, the dawidowski family paid a high price for the “war of monuments”. alek was wanted, so he had to leave warsaw. after returning in september, he continued to hide, working under a false name in the industrial fire brigade. in november, during another inspection in the apartment at ul. mickiewicza 18 his mother was arrested. janina dawidowska was transported to pawiak, from where she was sent to the concentration camp on majdanek, and then to kl ravensbruck. alek, broken after her arrest and thinking it was his fault she got caught, considered voluntarily surrendering himself to the gestapo in exchange for his mother’s dismissal.
on march 26, 1943, during operation arsenal, he commanded the “grenades” section in the “attack” group. after the successful rebound of the prisoners, during the jump towards the old town, he was seriously wounded in the stomach during a gun fight with the germans. stanisław broniewski “orsza” noted: “alek runs at the front of this last group. we saw him eliminate an ss officer trying to intervene. now, along with other collapsed “insurances”, he runs in the last group. suddenly these damn shots are fired. german arbeitsamt officials are shooting (…). one bullet hits “alek” in the stomach. “alek” curls up and falls onto the road.”
he was evacuated by a stopped german car. alek threw a grenade through the ajar door in the direction of the germans, which made it possible to retreat safely. at his own request, instead of a sanitary organized for the needs of the action — he was transported to the apartment of his friend.
the shot wound to the abdomen turned out to be really serious and required immediate surgery. maciej was transported to a hospital. the last moments of alek described “orsza” as follows: “he was cheerful to the end. he was glad that he did his duty well. he was happy that “rudy” was free and happy (…). he was getting weaker. this “alek” is the best built among his friends, athletic, full of humor and optimism - now he was quiet and calm. his calmness was some kind of absurdity for the closest ones.” alek did not make it. he passed away 4 days later, on the 30th of march.
posthumously awarded on may 3, 1943 with the cross of the order of virtuti militarii 5th class, and in 2011 with the commander’s cross with the star of the order of polonia restituta.

an entry in basia sapinska's diary, dated dec 17, 1943, eight months after alek's death:
"little one! look how grown up i am, i'm going to medical school. and yet i so wish i could be your little girl again. my love, i dream of sitting next to you, leaning on your shoulder, closing my eyes, and taking your hand. the last time i held your hand was in the hospital... my love, i never told you about my love, maybe because you didn't say anything about it either. you were absorbed in your work and didn't have time to think about it... or maybe you didn't love me?
only now do i realize how much i feel. but you know what, even before, a future with you seemed such a beautiful fairy tale to me that i didn't dare think about it. you were in my every thought, you were my sun, my joy, and everything that is most radiant and best. now, my love, i experience the hardest things through you, the longing, despair, hopelessness, and bitterness of such nightmarish, dark days.
i lived from seeing you to seeing you again. you gave me yourself, your experiences, your worries, and your joys. it's so incredibly much, you can't even imagine. you gave me love for you and the entire vast range of emotions that only a loving person can experience. you are so full of you, everywhere. i see you. i hear your footsteps. i love you, i love you..."

tadeusz zawadzki (“zoska”) and jan bytnar (“rudy”) met in 1937, when they were both 16 and attending the same high school in warsaw. they quickly became close and later joined the underground polish scouting organization known as the gray ranks (szare szeregi). together, they took part in numerous resistance and sabotage actions during the german occupation. their activities included tearing down nazi flags and replacing them with polish ones, painting the “PW” symbol (polska walczaca — “fighting poland”) on city walls, destroying railway tracks, and covering nazi propaganda with patriotic slogans.
on march 23rd, 1943, rudy was arrested by the gestapo. he was brutally tortured in an attempt to extract information about the gray ranks and the wider resistance network. despite the beatings — often carried out until he lost consciousness — he refused to reveal anything. his injuries were so severe that, on the second day of his arrest, he had to be moved to the prison hospital and was later carried to interrogations on a stretcher.
after learning what happened, zoska decided to act. he helped organize a rescue mission, gathering a team of 28 people to free rudy. the operation — known as operation arsenal — took place on march 26th and succeeded in rescuing rudy along with 20 other prisoners. tragically, rudy’s injuries were too extensive, and he died four days later.
aleksander kaminski, himself a member of the resistance, wrote “stones for the rampart” (kamienie na szaniec), a book chronicling the wartime experiences of zoska, rudy and their fellow scouts in warsaw. the title comes from juliusz slowacki’s poem “my testament”, which zoska read to rudy on his deathbed. zoska insisted that the book should carry that title — partly in rudy’s honor, and partly because it was also the title of one of rudy’s favorite readings.
“but i beg you — let the living not lose hope ever
and bear the torch of learning before their compatriots;
and when called, go to their death one after another,
like the stones tossed by the lord onto the ramparts…”
zoska died five months after rudy, also during a resistance action. both were 21 when they died, and both were posthumously awarded the order of virtuti militari (latin: “for military virtue”), poland’s highest military decoration for courage in wartime.

as for why some people interpret their relationship as potentially romantic: the discussion comes largely from historians and literary scholars. elzbieta janicka of the polish academy of sciences has noted that, in a culture where questioning someone’s heterosexuality is often treated as an accusation rather than an observation, comparing zoska and rudy to figures like achilles and patroclus can help reframe the conversation. she highlights certain passages in stones for the rampart, such as the scene after rudy’s rescue where zoska lies beside him in bed, and they talk about living together in the countryside after the war — imagining peaceful, happy days they would share. zoska also notes that “when we were together, he enjoyed me holding his hand or stroking his hair.” additionally, wartime rumors about their sexualities were mentioned by zoska’s own liaison officer.
rudy zoska

byllshit
ignore this
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT i am aleks real husband


i am kamienie na szaniecpilled

bruh
theyre so 


i REALLY dont like the film but the actors are so cute i love them
talk about cute, akcja pod arsenalem is so much better than the kamienie na szaniec film and zoskas actor actually looks like him (love marcel still)

cute... like... aalek... god i love alek so much... 
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