Poletsky and his two companions had only one night to carry out this complicated plan that they had, and fail that would result in public execution by hanging. The three escapes journeyed for over 100 kilometers on foot before they could reach any sense of relative safety. When making his way to warsaw, poletsky was shot by a german patrol that they had encountered,. Initially at the a nipolmit forest. Poletsky and his companions made a short stop also in bocina, where he came in to contact with a local chapter of his home army. One of its leaders was actually the real thomas sevinski, the very same guy that he was pretending to