WWII resistance fighter plans to speak Feb. 10 at NPC American Legion Post 20 meeting

Julian Kulski, a noted American architect who as a teenager fought in the Polish uprising in World War II, plans to recount his incredible story and discuss lessons learned in resisting tyranny at a meeting of NPC American Legion Post 20 on Wednesday, Feb. 10 at noon in the NPC's McClendon Room.

All National Press Club members are invited to attend speaker portion of American Legion Post 20 meeting.

Kulski was 10 years old in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and triggered World War II. He was saved from Auschwitz and certain death after being arrested by the Gestapo as a resistance-movement courier through an appeal by his father, the mayor of Warsaw. He took up arms and fought in the bloody 1944 Polish uprising and was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp where he marked his 15th birthday. He escaped life under Soviet domination when a sympathetic American reached down and lifted him aboard a U.S. Army truck evacuating liberated Western POWs.

Many years after becoming an architect and an American citizen, Kulski authored The Color of Courage, a detailed account of his transformation from Boy Scout to fighter for a free-and-independent Poland.

This event was originally scheduled for January but had to be postponed because of the snowstorm.