Calendar card: The Death of Joseph Franczak-Doll, the Last Cursed Soldier

Józef Franczak, ps. Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Gusciowa, besides utilized the name Józef Babiński (born 17 March 1918 in Kozice Górnych, born 21 October 1963 in Majdan Kozic Górnych) – Sergeant of the Polish Army, a associate in the Polish defence war 1939, later associated with the structures of ZWZ-AK, the last soldier of the Polish anti-communist underground and independence.

After graduating from the Podoficerska School at the Gendarmeria Training Centre in Grudziądz, he was assigned to the Gendarmeria Plutone in Plain. There was a war. After September 17, 1939, the Soviets arrested him. He managed to escape from captivity. In 1940 he joined the EGM and then the AK. He operated underground until 1944. In 1944, as an officer, he was forcibly incorporated into the 2nd Army of the Polish Army. In January 1945, witnessing the issuing and execution of death sentences on the AK-owce (e.g.: The ceremonial Baran close Międzyrzec Podlaski) decided to desert. shortly the NKVD began searching for it and began a 18-year period of hiding from the authorities.

The puppet took part in many attacks on alleged fixatives of folk power – militias and soldiers of the safety formation. He was injured respective times and arrested once. In June 1946, the safety Office made a immense roundup in the area where Franczak was hiding. After respective people were detained, including the Doll, who had papers in a different name, the Ubecs went to Chmiel village for the wedding. erstwhile after the party, the truck with the arrested people was driving to Lublin, the guerrillas threw themselves at the drunk Ubeeks, overpowered them and killed 5 of them. The signal was expected to give the dolls. In 1947, Franczak joined a squad of soldiers of the underworld of independence, commanded by Captain Zdzisław Bronski Uskok.

The catch in the area of Chmiel was connected with the search for the Lion – Antoni Kopaczewski, head of the Lublin Wine Inspectorate. A fewer months later, as a consequence of a tip and a manhunt, Lew was shot as he fled the conspiracy quarters. respective people died in UB buildings, including the four-year-old daughter of the hosts. The doll later attempted to assassinate safety associates, including civilian informers. 1 of the actions was the execution of the conviction on Franciszek Kasperek, ps. Hardy, a erstwhile guerrilla underground independence, who, after revealing himself in 1947, contributed to the arrest of Sigismund Libera Babinicz and the death of his erstwhile commander – Zdzisław Broński Uskok. Together with Viktor – Stanisław Kuchciewicz, the puppet besides killed another confidant – peasant Franciszek Drygala, who had previously released 2 guerrillas. The Drygala game threatened to deconspiration the full leadership of the Lublin anti-communist underground. Franczak commanded a several-man armed patrol, which included the execution of penalties for flogging or death on secret UB associates and PPR members.

On February 10, 1953, together with Viktor and Zbigniew Pielech Felk, they conducted an exhibition run of the Municipal Cooperatives' Casino in Piaski to rise funds to last the winter. The action failed, the cashier had already called the police. Stanisław Kuchciewicz, the last commander of Franczak, was killed in a clash with the militia. His destiny had previously been divided by Jerome Dekutowski Dam, Zdzisław Uskok Bronski and many others. The doll spent the next 10 years hiding. He did not uncover himself during amnesty in April 1956. Banished, outlawed by the then authorities, until October 21, 1963, he hid, continually being 1 of the most wanted persons in the country.

Franczak's formal work had already begun on 16 November 1951 as part of an operation codenamed Fire. The 27 secret collaborators of UB were used. In total, about 100 people were active in cooperation with security. Franczak was denounced by Stanisław Mazur, a comparative of his wife, who was a secret associate of SB Michał.

His final moments according to the SB study were as follows:

‘ Construction laps were made from a driveway by an OOMO operating group consisting of 35 officers brought to the pit by 2 safety officers. On the lap of the buildings, Franczak came out of the barn, posing as the host he considered the anticipation of leaving the guard, and erstwhile he was called to (unreadable) catch the gun—the weapon from which he fired respective shots. In this situation, the ZOMO liquidation group entered into liquidation. Franczak, despite calling for his opinion, took the defence and took advantage of the weak points of the defender under the cover of the buildings withdrew about 300 m from the melin, where he was fatally wounded during the exchange of shots and died after a fewer minutes.”

The household was given a headless corpse.

On 17 March 2008, the president of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński posthumously gave Joseph Franczak the "Dollek" Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of Polonia Revival

The Provincial Court in Warsaw, invalidating the death sentences of Colonel Hieronim Decutowski, the superior of the Dolka and his companions, wrote in the justification, among others,: soldiers of the AK later operating in the WiN organization were forced to argue armed mass extermination, by fighting both the NKVD troops and supporting them with Polish formations, i.e. militia, UB and alleged interior Forces. It was a essential and deliberate fight, consisting in taking prisoners or preventing execution and arrests. The ultimate Court now defines this in its case law as the right to collective defence necessary. There is no uncertainty that this was the nature of the armed actions of the "Fighting Dam" branch.

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Re-burial:

The bust of Józef Franczak, ps. Dolek, was unveiled on February 20, 2016. The ceremony was attended by representatives of state authorities (Vice Prime Minister, Minister from the Chancellery of the president of the Republic of Poland), as well as nephew of the murdered Soldier of the Cursed

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