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The Lwów Eaglets: Poland's Child Defenders of 1918
In November 1918, as Poland finally regained independence after 123 years of partitions, the multi-ethnic city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) erupted in a Polish-Ukrainian conflict over its future. Among the defenders of the city were hundreds of teenagers and even children, some as young as nine, who took up arms in desperate street fighting. They became known as the Orlęta Lwowskie, the Lwów Eaglets. This episode tells their story, focusing on the siege of the city, the key figure of General Czesław Mączyński who commanded the Polish forces, and the symbolic martyrdom of the youngest defender…
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