It must have been sometime in early October 1944 when the Polish composer Ludomir Różyckii packed a suitcase in Warsaw.
The uprising against the Germans had just failed bloody, his house burned down with scores and many unpublished works.
Różycki had to leave Warsaw.
Even before the uprising, the Gestapo had taken him several times and tried to force him to be humanized by signing the “People's List”.
Różycki, a pupil of Engelbert Humperdinck, was with Karol Szymanowski in 1905 a founding member of the “Young Poland”, a composer group that played a decisive role in the revival of Polish musical culture between the wars.