On the 84th anniversary of the outbreak of planet War II, representatives of the ultimate Audit Office will pay tribute to the staff of the home who died from 1939 to 1945. The delegation of the home will lay a wreath at the NIK Memorial Wall, on which are the names of the heroes – “nikovists”, who gave their lives for Poland from 1939 to 1945.
On 1 September 1939, the German attack on Poland began the largest and most bloody war in planet history. NIK employees then began writing their own story. Despite the German raids, during the first fewer days of the war, the home worked. Following the ordered evacuation of the offices, the elder management of NIK, including president Jakub Krzemieński and Vice president Stanisław Okoniewski, left the capital from 6 to 7 September. However, most home officials remained in Warsaw. At that time the office of NIK was located in Al. Szucha 23.
A peculiarly beautiful card was recorded in September 1939 by the manager of Department I NIK Mieczysław Dębski. After a short evacuation to Lublin, erstwhile he heard on the radio the call of Warsaw president Stefan Starzyński to defend the capital, he returned to Warsaw on 10 September. Dębski, appointed commander of Volunteer labour Balloons, organized the office in the NIK building in Szucha Avenue. Volunteerly supported by another employees of NIK, he managed to organize six battalions of support with about 3,000 volunteers until the surrender of Warsaw. Dębski's diary, issued in 2002 by NIK, his memories of September 1939 stay a large evidence to the heroic attitude of the defender Country:
"...At 12 am on the night of September 10, Starzyński signed a decree to establish labour Banions. An hr later, I woke up the janitors at Szuch due to the fact that I decided to place the office of the office in the NIK building. My deputy was Clement Frelek, Deputy manager of the Magistrate Education Department, and respective volunteers came from among the officials. I must admit that this was a top-notch human material in all respect and, most importantly, a comparatively young [...]. At night I could only contact those who had phones at home. All like 1 husband came immediately. [...] – Mieczysław Dębski recalled: “Over the night, there was a news about the organisation of labour Baons in the NIK building. [...] On my call on the radio, candidates for officers, from among engineers and technicians, began to apply. [...] The qualifying commission, established at night from department chiefs, mostly NIK, sorted and assigned to individual bars. [...] A radio was installed in the ground level office of the president of the territory Control Chamber, which I occupied, and there were 2 phones connecting to the city. On 12 September, I could have already informed Starzyński that 1500 people had been put at the disposal of the engineering troops, the second so many would be ready in 2 days...”.
The names of the controllers - victims of the Katyń Crimes, camps and concentration camps - were immortalized on the Memorial Table in NIK. any of the controllers as reserve officers were mobilized and, like Stanisław Mantel, after entering russian captivity, died in the Katyn forest. A akin destiny may have been met by the president of the territory Control Chamber in Brest on the Bug – Józef Mińkowski (historians inactive do not have access to the alleged Belarusian Katyń list). In Katyń besides the Master of Law Władysław Wait from the territory Control Chamber in Krakow was killed. In Tver the Soviets murdered Witold Kołakowski, reserve lieutenant, counsel of the ultimate Audit Chamber, a lawyer appointed to the State Police Auxiliary Service. The victims of Katyń Crimes were besides Jan Andrzejowski - OIK lawyer in Lviv, Marian Pisarik OIK controller in Lviv, Stefan Bystrzonowski - OIK lawyer in Krakow, Antoni Chudzicki - lawyer in the Office of State Control in Katowice.
Others, like Dr. Adam Gręplowski of the territory NIK in Kraków, arrested Gestapo. He was tortured in Auschwitz in May 1942. His colleague besides from the Krakow NIK delegation, Mieczysław Klug, died the same year in Kl Plaszow (Płaszów). In the camp in Starobielsk, the president of the region Control Chamber in Vilnius Zenon Mikulski was imprisoned, who was murdered in Kharkov in 1940.
NIK's pre-war workers besides died in another places of "inhuman land". In a camp in Gari, north of Yekaterinburg, he died on 6 November 1941 “out of general exhaustion” Antoni Zubielewicz, an worker of NIK. In Bucharest, Kazimierz Piłsudski, brother of the Chief of State Józef Piłsudski, banker and worker of NIK, died on 19 December 1941, arrested by the Soviets in Vilnius after 17 September 1939, then imprisoned in Moscow prisons – in Łubiance and Butyrka. In russian prisons there was besides a controller of the territory Control Chamber in Lviv – Gustav Wex-Manasterski.
President of NIK unveils the Memorial Wall (18 September 2020)
NIK Memorial WallHowever, any auditors managed to proceed working not only for the structures of the Polish state, but besides for state control. For example, Ernest Boheim, among others, the heroic defender of Lviv in 1918 and the NIK controller in Warsaw, including the head of the railway control department, continued his work in the emigrating NIK in France and large Britain. In turn another experienced NIK controller, pre-war head of NIK Division III, Bohdan Beuth supported his cognition and experience created under conspiracy conditions in occupied Poland, the Government Delegation Control Section of the country. It ended on 29 August 1945.
On 1 September, it will stay in the memory of Poles as the day of the beginning of almost six years of brutal business and terror, marked by the unimaginable suffering of civilians and millions of victims.
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