Godna Ratter: erstwhile he said goodbye to his mother, he loved Homeland as much as his parent did
date:17 May 2025 Editor: Anna
Such 2 episodes I would like to present, which I remembered during my studies on the formation of the 2nd Polish Corps and the conflict of Monte Cassino. I peculiarly address the youth gathered. I was born in the Lviv Civilization of the Second Republic. The Lviv community was very patriotic and loved its city and its homeland very much. Arthur Oppman wrote a poem by Orlkowe. The point of this poem is that this underage boy, erstwhile he said goodbye to his mother, loved Homeland as much as his parent did. And the parent loves herself most with all her strength and power.- Mr Tadeusz Kurcyk (born 1931 in Brzuchowice close Lviv) recited the poem with emotion. Without a card, like the full of his speech during the 35th anniversary of the Association of erstwhile Polish Armed Forces “Karpatczyk” which he is President. The ceremony with the participation of military and state authorities was held at the Central Military Library.
The association was registered on December 28, 1990. The initiator and first president of this association was Colonel Tadeusz Mieczysław Czerkawski, lieutenant of the war time in the dense artillery regiment in reconnaissance, Knight of the Order of Virtuti Militari. His accomplishment was the association in the Association of Friends of Schools and the Monte Cassino Organization. erstwhile he resigned from office in 2005, Major Romuald Alexander Pistol, a corporal, took over during the war. He served in the light artillery regiment of the 3rd Karpack firearm Division. In 2009, as president on his return from London, Colonel Edmund Brzozowski, bachelor of the Order of Virtuti Militari, took over. A associate in the Italian campaign, he fought among others under Castel de Sangro, Monte Cassino, on the Gustawa line, on the Goth line, in the Northern Apenins and on the Senio River. He lived for 100 years, during his tenure I was Vice president and in 2018 I accepted the duties of president - the past of the Association is presented by Mr Tadeusz Kurcyk.
The second episode was described by an unknown author. It should be recalled that after the aggression of the 3rd German Reich and the russian Union into Poland, Poland was divided into 2 business zones. And there was no indication that he would always be reborn. The Polish government at the exile did its best, but the military possible of these 2 totalitarian states was so immense that we could be under business 123 years or more. And there was a miracle. On June 22, 1941, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler attacked the russian Union. The Sikorski-Majski Agreement dealt with 2 fundamental matters: the release of prisoners from the camps and exile and the creation of the Polish Army in the USSR. Recruitment to the Polish Army was described in the poem Buzułuk. It was a town where General Anders' staff was located, to which Poles were heading, who managed to escape russian hell - Mr Tadeusz Kurcyk and this poem recited:
Who are you, my friend?
That you're wearing that weird outfit?
I am a prisoner of the Polish soldier
I'm left with my collar uniform.
And a coat with wind
What are you wearing?
And specified a unusual ranting face?
Face is stupid. I'm alive.
And under the rags
Polish heart, Polish blood cover
This was the attitude of volunteers, recruits for the Polish Army, and General Anders wrote in his book “Without the Last Chapter” that after his release from prison he met an unorganized 17,000th group of Polish Army, half of which were shoeless and shirtless. He was amazed as well as the accompanying NKVD Zhukov gene that they were all shaved. Thanks to diplomatic and political skills, General Anders managed to evacuate the full military and civilians there as well. The Polish soldier had religion in God and went to conflict with the belief that the sacrifice of his blood would not go for nothing - Mr Tadeusz Kurcyk recalled the words of the bishop from his homily during last year's celebrations in Loreto. More than 1080 soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps who died in the struggles for the liberation of the Italian Marche region were buried in the cemetery in Loreto, at the ft of the 15th-century Loretan Basilica.
- Colonel Tadeusz Mieczysław Czerkawski- Founder and First president of the Association "KARPATCZYCY" . A associate in the conflict of Monte Cassino, Knight of the Order of Virtuti Miiitari. He was born on 6 May 1919 in Stanisławów in the east Borders of IIRP as the boy of Kazimierz and Zofia from Porębska House.
- Major Romuald Aleksander Pistol - After the business of Lviv by the Red Army he was arrested with his parent by the NKVD (exported to slave labour in Kazakhstan). After amnesty he enlisted in the Polish Army in the USSR General W. Anders. He participated in the Italian run to the degree of Ensign Light Artillery 3 DSK.
- Colonel Edmund Brzozowski - Italian run participant. He fought, among others, under Castel de Sangro, Monte Cassino, on the Gustawa line, on the Goth line, in the Northern Apenins and on the Senio River. In January 1940, he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced as a "dangerous component for a five-year labour camp in the Komi Republic. In 1941, he joined the ranks of General Władysław Anders, established in the USSR. He was incorporated into the 3rd Karpacki firearm Division.
- Tadeusz Kurcyk, Vice president of the Association of erstwhile Polish Armed Forces Soldiers from the West “Karpatczyk”, Honorary president of the Society of Polish Aviation Engineers SIMP. boy of Gustav Kurcyk, a legionary (aged 17), arrested by the Soviets in 1940, imprisoned in “Brygidki” in Lviv, a sibirak, a soldier of the 3rd Carpathian firearm Division 2nd Polish Corps General Władysław Anders.
He is the author of respective books and articles in the magazine of the Carpathian Union "Goniec Karpacki", whose editorial office is located in London. In the last issue, which could be received from guests, Mr Tadeusz Kurcyk mentions among others. Pilgrimage on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Ancona with a field mass at the Loreto Cemetery (2024) and recalls the conflict of Monte Cassino. The Hymical Song by Felix Konarski Monte Cassino performed during the ceremony the large Orchestra and Choir of the Polish Army.
In the book “Emigration of the Fighting” is simply a memory: ... the most faithful evidence of his (Conarski) ability is “Songs from Helena’s backpack”. The dual mastery of authorship is expressed in prose and poetry. It must be the case that the most celebrated song preceded the poem about Maciek; hence the mention to the defenders of the Homeland about the peasant pedigree... And Maćki, Wojka, and Jaski-written Konarski-under the burning monastic mountain, and they fell into the midst of the fire. . They've been hanging around the planet for a long time, waiting for that minute to come on any May night, threatening and terrible, due to the fact that revenge is for the harm suffered. It follows the full text of the song and the continuation of the author's commentary referring to the words of the chorus as the closing of the theme.
"Red poppies on Monte Cassino ...The red ones will be - it's true!. I think they're going to be besides red due to the fact that besides much blood has sunk in this mountain, due to the fact that besides many guys on the slopes are left! But the remainder went forward! She leaped - through the ruins of the monastery covered - highest and further through Piedimonte to the "sixteen" on the cross! ... due to the fact that everyone thought that this was closer to Poland !.. I spoke to 1 specified specialist in German bunkers!. He held a swastika helmet in his hand, and he said to me: “See this Kraut cylinder? I'll take him to my Kászka as a gift. (Wojciech J. Podgórski Emigration of the Fighting)
Oh, my God.
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