Janek — Birth Certificate Character Profile

About Janek

A young boy searching for his mother during the September 1939 invasion. He joins a separated soldier transporting documents and flees for his life when they encounter a German tank column.

Janek — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Henryk Hryniewicz

Appears in

Birth Certificate (1961)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (3)

• Janek — Social Fellow Survivor — Zbyszek (Edward Mincer)

  Peers experiencing wartime trauma in separate storylines.

• Janek — Social Fellow Survivor — Heniek (Andrzej Banaszewski)

  Peers experiencing wartime trauma in separate storylines.

• Janek — Social Fellow Survivor — Jacek (Pawel Rózewicz)

  Peers experiencing wartime trauma in separate storylines.

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• Gendarme (Tadeusz Schmidt)
• Neighbour Ciziak (Stanisław Milski)
• German Gendarme (Janusz Ziejewski)
• Neighbour Borrowing Oil (Maria Kaniewska)
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