He was lucky to have a brilliant career. He died fighting for Warsaw.

In 1936, Lokaisky took part in the Olympic Games in Berlin, finishing in seventh place. His weaker result was due to a shoulder injury, which he received in front of the journalists while performing a practice throw. This meant that he failed to win the coveted medal at the Berlin Olympics. A year after the Olympics in Berlin, he retired due to a chronic ear disease.

Lokaisky was fond of not only sports. He was also interested in photography. During the uprising, he was a liaison officer and chronicler who documented the uprising. More often than a pistol, he carried a camera and video camera in his hand, allowing him to take invaluable photographs and short films of the period. When one officer after another died in the fight for freedom, Lokaisky was sent to the front line, where he commanded a platoon that fiercely and successfully defended, for example, the ruins of the Main Post Office for two days. During this time, he took more than 1000 photographs depicting the battle of the insurgents for Warsaw.

Lokajski took over 1,000 photographs during the uprising.

He developed the films in his sister Zofia Domanska’s downtown apartment and kept them there. On September 25, when the capitulation of the uprising was approaching, he was delegated to the Headquarters of the Home Army to photograph false documents, thanks to which the rebels were able to leave the city along with the civilian population. For the numbers, he went to the photo studio at st. Marshalkovskaya 129 next to the street. Siena, where there was a photography studio. He was seen entering the store. The apartment building was bombed, the house turned into a pile of ruins. The Expenditure soldiers immediately began a rescue operation, but they weren’t enough to clear the place. Years later, in an interview with Agnieszka Kubala, one of the rebels, Jan Gozdava-Golenbiowski, described the circumstances of Lokaisky’s death.

- Yanek, I’m going across the street, there may be films, - said “Brock”. I didn’t get up because I didn’t have the strength. He ran alone. And then there was an explosion. The bullet had just hit the house at 129 Marshalkovskaya Street. We ran out. A huge apartment building, probably five-story, was demolished to the basement, the rebel recalled in his book “Games of Life and Death.”

Lokajski’s body was found almost nine months after the tragedy, on May 15, 1945. Today, his grave is located in the Powazki cemetery, and his photographs that survived the war are exhibited in the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising.

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This article was first published on the Fact website on August 1, 2020.