WWII resistance fighter to speak Jan. 27 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, will recount his incredible story and discuss lessons learned in resisting tyranny at a Jan. 27 meeting of NPC American Legion Post 20.

The meeting will be held at noon in the Club's McClendon Room. All NPC members are invited to attend speaker portions of Post 20 meetings.

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. But Kulski took up arms and fought in the bloody 1944 Polish uprising.

Sent to a POW camp where he marked his 15th birthday, Kulski 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.