Sublime

At the outbreak of the war, Gubbins served with a British liaison mission in Poland, where he witnessed Nazi Germany’s offensive power and also began fostering relationships with what soon became the Polish General Staff in exile, Britain’s essential link to the Polish resistance.

A moment after, as Mackiewicz moved toward where his friend lived, the prisoners, at last realizing their plight, began trying to break free. Mackiewicz cowered behind his bicycle with two railway workers. As the Jews poured out of the train-car windows, throwing their suitcases and bundled possessions before them, their captors leaped into action.