Ryszard at the age of twenty, as a student at University of California at Berkeley

Ryszard at the age of three with his grandmother (and mine) Gisela

Ryszard’s father, Gustav

Ryszard, the committed student

Book cover. Ryszard is on the right.

Caricature of Ryszard, unknown artist, shortly before he was killed

Gustav Bychowski at the age of three

Ryszard’s report card from Stefan Batory High School, grades good and very good, Spring of 1939

Monica, Ryszard’s sister, was born when he was fifteen

Monica

Courses at Cal Berkeley

Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle

Article in San Francisco Chronicle with a pseudonym Jan Erby, using his mother’s maiden name

Article in San Francisco Chronicle with a pseudonym Jan Erby (page 2)

Article in San Francisco Chronicle with a pseudonym Jan Erby (page 3)

Article in San Francisco Chronicle with a pseudonym Jan Erby (page 4)

Article in San Francisco Chronicle with a pseudonym Jan Erby (page 5)

On the left, byline in New York Times for a story about Poles training in Canada, Feb. 7, 1942

March of Time interview transcript, July 16, 1942

March of Time interview transcript (page 2)

March of Time interview transcript (page 3)

March of Time interview transcript (page 4)

Letter to Gustav, expressing his anger at Polish airmen who were indifferent at best to fate of Jews in Poland

Unbylined cable from London, a month before he was killed

Report of Ryszard’s death in English language Polish newspaper

News item in New York Times about his death

Item in New York Herald Tribune about his death

Official report of his plane crash

Notice of his ashes being exhumed in 1974

Essay about history of German-Polish relations