On 27th July the Germans decided to evacuate the Gęsiówka camp to Dachau. More than 400 inmates, incapable of marching, were shot...A column of about 4,000 Jews was marched off, but disappeared without trace. And now the Zośka battalion was standing in front of this camp. They remembered the Scouting Statute, which says that a scout is a friend to every other human being and a brother to every other scout. We all wanted to attack immediately...and since we had captured a couple of tanks, the situation was rather better than in the previous days. So four of us went back to "Radosław" Mazurkiewicz, commander of the insurgent forces in Warsaw's Wola district to ask for permission. Radosław was a cautious man and shared the view that the fortified positions should not be attacked frontally. But he agreed on condition that the attacking force be small in number and be composed entirely of volunteers...We carried it off by surprise. Our tank was a great success because the Germans the camp had no anti-tank weapons. After the main gateway was destroyed Felek's platoon moved in...