 The term and the analogy with the castaway has often been made by Robinsons in their own memoirs , as well as by other writers . Dawid Fogelman had been imprisoned at the Gęsiówka concentration camp . After the camp was liberated by the Polish Home Army , he joined its ranks and fought in the uprising . At the end of the fighting , Fogelman became a Robinson , hiding in a bunker on Szczęśliwa Street , where he began writing a diary . He wrote : " We lived like Robinson Crusoe , with the one difference that he was free , could move about freely , while we lived in hiding . " While Fogelman 's diary survived , his ultimate fate is unknown . 
