Wacław Gluth-Nowowiejski

Wacław Gluth-Nowowiejski (Wacek) (10 June 1926 – 23 December 2024) was a soldier of the Polish Home Army (AK), a participant in the Warsaw Uprising, and after the war, a publicist and author.

Alojzy had been a member of the paramilitary organization Strzelec in the Austrian partition part of Poland and later, during World War I, served in Józef Piłsudski's Polish Legions.

[2] At the outbreak of World War II and the German invasion of Poland, in 1939, Wacław was thirteen years old.

[5] After being released, he wrote several books about his wartime experiences including Śmierć poczeka (Death can wait),[6] Nie umieraj do jutra (Don't die till tomorrow),[7] Stolica jaskiń: z pamięci warszawskiego Robinsona (The capital of caves: from the memories of a Warsaw Robinson) and Rzeczpospolita gruzów (The Commonwealth of ruins), which was adopted into a short comic by Polish artist Jerzy Wróblewski in 1979.

[8] In the same year Gluth-Nowowiejski also wrote the story for another of Wróblewski's war related comics, Czterej na drodze śmierci (Four on the road of death).

The ruins of Warsaw, after its systematic and planned destruction by the Nazis. Gluth-Nowowiejski hid in the ruins from late September until mid November 1944.