[1] Bogucki and his wife Janina née Godlewska (8 March 1908 – 19 June 1992)[2] are known for helping and hiding the Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman during the German occupation of Poland.

[4] Bogucki was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta for his career and actions during World War II.

[4] During World War II, Bogucki and his wife were involved with the anti-German Polish resistance movement, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army).

In February 1944 they were contacted through members of the Jewish underground by their friend, the pianist Władysław Szpilman, who was working as a slave laborer as one of the remaining Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Anticipating that the Germans were planning to liquidate even the slave workers (most other Jews had already been deported to Treblinka), Szpilman, with help from Bogucki, escaped the ghetto and hid on the non-Jewish side of Warsaw.

[6] After the war, in the 1950s Szpilman composed songs especially for Andrzej and Janina, including the popular Czerwony autobus (Red bus).

[4] After the end of World War II, he returned to the stage at the Polish Army Theatre in Łódź, where he performed between 1945 and 1947.