The Polish international
athletics-team in Prague (1928). Jozef Korolkiewicz is first from
the right. In centre - Halina Konopacka (olympic gold 1928 and world records
in discus throw). Janusz Kusocinski, Polish athletics hero and World War
II martyr, is sitting third from the left. Kusocinski, who won the olympic
gold medal (10 000 metres) in 1932 and had the 3000 metres world record,
was a friend of Barbara and Jozef. Jozef Korolkiewicz wrote and illustrated
a humoristic, but true, story about the two gentelmens’(Janusz and Jozef)
“fight” to become soldiers of the Polish Army and defend Warsaw in
1939. The two skilled soldiers had never passed the formal military service.