Bożena Ratter: We were raised by the same very patriotic and dynamic atmosphere of universities

What a first-class boyfriend I found in her! Lt. Lieutenants and subchors: Kulczycki of Krosna and Bartosz of Jasła, both from the Austrian Army, legionary of Szczypiórna Czerniatowicz and legionary of Szmidt of Lviv. And the shooters? Fifty-fifty old soldier from various fronts and events of the Austrian army or legions, and underage boys, underage, consecutive from the school bench or under the mother's protective wings. There was enthusiasm, enthusiasm, and erstwhile I greeted the company in the morning, and not knowing Polish rules and customs well, I shouted to the company “boys are eager?” - it was in the large answer “Mr.

Nothing that half did not know how to usage combat equipment - not even to burden a rifle; nothing that specified an intelligent student from Krosn, erstwhile in the first fight he took even a fewer steps out of the rifle, it was at the sight of the sliding body that he cried out loudly and it was essential to halt the conflict to calm him; nothing that he dressed it was to mourn God, and armed even more primitive; nothing to this desire, this zeal which would realize only those who experienced akin moments in that only November 1918, in Poland.

And a fewer days later, on November 20, an expedition to the rescue of Lviv began. possibly not the most trivial item for my memories is that I was born in east Małopolska, in the territory of Lviv-fact, which gave much colour to my war experiences in 1918/20 and 1939. It shaped me, my character, my mentality, or even my soldier figure, the same prewar reality before 1914 and then the years of war until 1920.

The same reality in Małopolska, which worked in parallel the kind of Lviv and Kraków dormitory, the kind of future legionary and the kind of Austrian Army reserve officer. We were raised by the same very patriotic and dynamic atmosphere of universities and medium-sized technological establishments, the same reading first in Sienkiewicz and then in the masters of “Young Poland”, Kasprowicz, Wyspianski, Żeromski and others. And how through the illness of childhood we all went from Skrzetuski to Kmicic, from Judym to Rozłucki, etc. (From submarines to tank General Stanisław Maczek).

Poles in this area for 7 generations dreamed and fought for the revival of the brightest Republic. On 1 November 1918, representatives of the Polish Elimination Commission from Krakow were to take power in Lviv on behalf of the reborn homeland. abruptly Poles woke up in Ukrainian Lviv, Tarnopol or Stanisławów. For many of them it was a nightmare dream. As a consequence of the countering of Polish and large patriotic sacrifice of hundreds of youth from Lviv, Warsaw, Radom, Częstochowa, Krosna, Bytomia, Katowice, etc. - all districts of Poland- and the assistance of Polish troops (Wielkopolski), Ukrainian troops withdrew from Lviv on 22 November 1918. This war lasted until 16 July 1919 erstwhile troops of the Ukrainian Halic Army were displaced for Zbrucz.

During these 9 months, UHA soldiers committed many crimes on Polish soldiers and civilians. Polish villages were burned and shot. The murdered Polish prisoners had their eyes torn out, their tongues torn out, and their ears cut off. Doctors and paramedics were killed, buried alive, nuns raped, churches desecrated.

Reading the descriptions of the crimes, it rightly comes to the thought that possibly these barbarian atrocities were presented a small besides much, possibly the culture of Gontów and Żeleźniak has changed in the 20th century – Wanda Mazanowska, vice president of the Guards Mogił Polish Heroes in the 2nd Polish Republic, wrote in 1926. Unfortunately, no! A parliamentary committee was delegated to analyse Ukrainian atrocities.

Up to 60 witnesses were interviewed and their evidence was recorded in a protocol and published in a brochure entitled “From the Blood Days of Złoczów 1919”, from which we derive material. Exhumation and medical examination were carried out in the presence of Allied missions on 5 and 6 June 1919. Photographic photographs of exhumed corpses are included in the judicial investigation files and were submitted to the Sejm commission for the investigation of Ukrainian atrocities. The court-medical examination has been effective by the territory Court in Złoczów in relation to delegates of the then Handicrafts and the military, against delegates of the American mission: Smith and Lieutenant Br. Hohendorf, F. F. O. Donella, delegate of the English mission (Wanda Mazanowska).

What talents were born or come to this royal Polish castle for 600 years!!! Zygmunt Rucker, curious in science, studied pharmacy and chemistry. The acquired cognition and his “obtaining the thought of positivistic reasoning and respect for money and their advantage over the musket and the carabel “invested in the pharmacy “Under the Silver Eagle” at Krakowska 26 in Lviv. And erstwhile “in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, the Germans brought newness into their army, the alleged Erbwurst, as a very convenient, nutritious and healthy advocacy article of the military, he came into contact with a German staff doctor and acquired a recipe of this food from him”, protoplasts of today’s “hot cups” (Jerzy Janicki “Kraki”).

And so Sigismund Rucker founded a large canned mill in Lviv. Rucker's mill was even bigger than Bachewski's factory. Appreciating the power of advertising and promotion, Zygmunt Rucker presented his products highly ingeniously, as he wrote in his diary:

"The centennial anniversary of the Kosciuszko Uprising and the conflict of Racławice was approaching. In order to celebrate this monumental historical event, the city of Lviv decided to host a large national exhibition(...) The emperor who accepted the protectorate over the exhibition was expected to arrive, so I decided to appear at the exhibition with my 2 companies, i.e. with the pharmacy and mill as efficiently as possible. I succeeded in all this in full, due to the fact that not only did the wider audience become curious in my products, which not only received the highest awards and medals, but the top triumph awaited me on the occasion of the arrival of Francis Joseph, who passed by my field camp exhibition stand, in which the very successful mannequins of the Austrian soldiers cooked and ate the soup of the factory's production, stopped and for a fewer minutes talked to me about the size of the company. On leaving, the emperor said to his surroundings that the company should be supported. (Jerzy Janicki “Krakidały”).

Mr. Sigmund's Kminkova soup at that time drove out of Turkey's marketplace the German company "Knorr". The company's bloom is at times II of the Republic of Poland, the owner of a farm lease company, where it grows vegetable canned ingredients and marmalades, builds its own bacon mill, from which the celebrated Polish Hams hams come out, and sponsors the oldest Lviv sports club “Czarni”.

When planet War II breaks out, another mill owner, boy of Mr.Zygmunt, Jan Jerzy Rucker and his spouse, Stefania, from the Markheim home (daughter of the bank manager) defend themselves in Krosno. Unfortunately, due to hunger for bone tuberculosis, the wife of Mr. John George loses both legs. And as the Soviets approach the city, Mr. Jan Jerzy Rucker, “Lwowski nabab, capitalist and bourgeois, the owner of the full automobile rolling stock” takes personally, on a wheelbarrow, his wife to the home for the disabled, run by the clariska sisters. And in this case, too, the church remained faithful to man.

It's 1 of many Lviv sags that would have been perfect for film, literature, reporting if not for collusion of silence. And after all, we owe so much to Poles, born on the lost Polish Lands of II Poland, who managed to avoid death at the hands of German, Soviet, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian and Ubek torturers. They served and served in the economy, science, art, education, entertainment...Poles expelled from the ancient Polish lands I and II of the Republic, there educated, raised, inheriting the talents of cognition and skills, lived in Warsaw, Wrocław, Toruń, Tricity, Opole, Wałbrzych, Krakow, Gliwice, Bytom and many another cities, towns, villages or abroad. They are praised for this, after all, for being robbed, tired, orphaned, mentally and frequently physically mutilated, with an origin cursed by the hateful governments of post-war Poland, condemned to forget to this day, yet with warmth and humour, as with the end bats. And to think what our country would be like if it wasn't for a criminal policy against our nation of Germans, Russians, Ukrainians, and this cruel communist regime, which brought death to 60 million people of different nationalities, caused the top exodus of the population and, above all, caused havoc in minds and souls.

Oh, my God.

Photo: Center of Lviv, aerial photography, 1928

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