February 4, 2011 year lower house of parliament passed a law on the establishment of March 1 the National Day of Remembrance for Soldiers accursed. Ardent supporter of this initiative was late. President Lech Kaczynski, and he came in February last year to the Parliament a draft law on the subject.
Below is the text of late. Janusz Kurtyka - President of the IPN, which was published in a special supplement to the "show on Sunday":
soldiers and citizens
last soldiers armed independence underground perished at the hands of communist executioners.
March 1, 1951 was in prison Mokotow was similar to many other dark days of fear and terror, interspersed with the Stalinist Poland. Between the hours 20.00 and 20.45 shot in the back of the head shot were the leaders of the Association IV "Liberty and Independence" - President of WiN Ciepliński Lieutenant Colonel Luke ("Plough" "Louis") and his closest associates.
last soldiers
They formed the last executives last nationwide conspiracy, direct (organizationally and personally) since 1945, continuing the work of the Home Army. Date of execution - 1 marca1951 the - symbolically closes the conspiracy going on independence, which began on September 27, 1939. on the eve of the surrender of a besieged by the Germans in Warsaw, when a group of officers of the Army Gen. Michael Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz formed a Polish Victory Service (later converted sequentially Union for Armed Struggle and the Army, and in 1945. the Delegation of the Armed Forces, upon which Created in September of this year WiN).
Among the organizers of the SPV and guided by two co-organizing the Association WiN: IFI WiN president was Colonel John Rzepecki, developed, and arrested by NKWDiUB in November 1945, the president IIZGWiN - Colonel Francis Niepokólczycki arrested by the communist secret police in październiku1946r.
Enforcement Lupaszka
From the same prison cell aggregate Mokotów bit earlier, on Feb. 8, 1951 on, led to the death of the Vilnius District Army officers: Lt.-Col. Anthony Olechnowicz "Podhoreckiego" MAJ. Zygmunt Szendzielarz "Łupaszkę" Cpt. Henryk Borowski "bumblebee", see Lucian Minkiewicz "Victor". "Łupaszka, a cavalry officer in the September 1939 campaign. Was perhaps the most famous Polish guerrilla commander during the Second World War.
When executioners came into the collective death row after Major "Łupaszkę," he recalled this inmate Mieczyslaw Chojnacki - "just got out of the" chapel "[of stopping the cell], where he prayed. He walked calmly to the door, then stopped for a moment, turning sideways to the remaining in the cell, and said goodbye with words: "men of God". chorus of voices answered him: "with God." disappeared from sight for zatrzaśniętymi the door. "
Prison was conducted in the evening, the appeal of prison time, through the courtyard, under the related back of hands, by two guards, the third guard - kat - walked right behind them. In the space between the warehouse and the prison bath followed a shot in the back of the head. Lost buried in unmarked graves, unidentified to this day.
was a legend
After the execution, "Lupaszka" and comrades - he recalled fellow prisoner - were given the signal to end the call and at that moment, it had time to disperse, there is a [prisoner] Matt deer, turning to us a moment of silence honored the memory of fellow soldiers. She fell command "Attention", "a minute" spocznij ", and yet said" thank you gentlemen. "'It's an unusual scene in a place where communists tried to debase their victims psychologically and degrade. This legend could not be killed.
Janusz Kurtyka
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