in Warsaw During the
Second World War, after the Modelski family's house on
Nowy Świat Street had burnt down, all the family moved to
Leszno Street, where Witold had been cared for by his mother Jadwiga Maria Modelska until the
Warsaw Uprising broke out. At the beginning of August 1944, Witold Modelski joined the
Parasol Battalion, a part of the
Radosław Group, precisely the 4 platoon of the 1 company. When the
Wola district collapsed, he transferred to The North Group, a part of the
Gozdawa Battalion – Sosna section, located in
Warsaw Old Town. Witold Modelski ended his martial fate on
Czerniaków in the Parasol Battalion. Modelski was uncommonly brave. On 23 August 1944, he was awarded the
Cross of Valour and promoted to
corporal. He died on 20 September on the Czerniaków Coast, in home on
Wilanowska Street 1. After the war, his mother, with the help of female emergency medical technicians from the
Polish Red Cross, tracked down her son's body during the soldiers exhumation on the Upper Czerniaków Uprising. Under the cover of night she transported Witold on the
Powązki Military Cemetery and buried him near the cemetery wall on her own. Only after several years later was his body moved into the plot reserved for soldiers and emergency medical technicians from the Parasol Battalion. The exact destination of his grave is the quarter A24-10-24. His martial fate was described in books written by Zbigniew Wróblewski, such as
Bakwiri z ulicy Leszno () and
Z jednego domu (), where there are numerous substantial mistakes, also including a myth that his family had allegedly fallen already in 1939. Witold Modelski is the patron of the Little Insurrectionist Hall in
Warsaw Uprising Museum. ==Notes==