“I escaped from Auschwitz with Jewish sweetheart”.

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A WORLD War Two hero has relived the moment he and his sweetheart escaped from Nazi death camp Auschwitz.

Prisoner Jerzy Bielecki put on a stolen SS uniform and told a guard at the gates he was taking his Jewish girlfriend for interrogation.

The Polishman described how his knees buckled with fear as he showed his forged pass.

Free ... Jerzy in 1944

 

But the sentry uttered "Ja, danke" and let Jerzy, 23, and Cyla Cybulska, 22, stroll through the gates to freedom.

Jerzy, now 89, said: "It was great love. We were making plans that we'd get married and would live together forever."

He was only 19 when he was sent to Auschwitz in 1940 and met Cyla three years later.

Cyla, whose parents and siblings were gassed by the Nazis, fell for Catholic Jerzy while they worked in the camp's grain warehouse.

As their love blossomed, he began planning their escape and got the uniform and pass from a Polish inmate at a uniform warehouse.

'Great love' ... the young Cyla

 

He still remembers every step as he walked away from Auschwitz. "I felt pain in my backbone where I was expecting to be shot," he said.

After their escape, Cyla hid on a farm. Jerzy went to a city 25 miles away. They planned to meet again after the war, but it was not to be.

Cyla was liberated before Jerzy and assumed he had abandoned their plans or was dead.

She wed a Jewish man and they had a jewellery business in New York.

Jerzy had a family in Poland and was director of a car mechanics school.

But the pair did meet again after Cyla, now widowed, told a cleaner her story in 1982. The cleaner had heard Jerzy's story on Polish TV and got his number.

A few weeks later they met at Krakow airport. He bought 39 red roses, one for every year they had spent apart.

Cyla visited Jerzy regularly. He said: "The love started to come back. She was telling me, 'Leave your wife, come to America'. She cried a lot when I said, 'Look I have such fine children. How could I do that?"

Cyla died in New York in 2002. Jerzy said: "I was very much in love with Cyla. Fate decided for us but I'd do the same again."

'She cried a lot' ... couple reunited in 1983