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Józef Franczak's weapon “Lalusia” was found. It will be added to the collections of Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People's Republic at 37 Rakowiecka Street. pic.twitter.com/8kDZR54FN6
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Józef Franczak joined the Polish Army at the age of 17. After graduating from the Podoficerska School at the Gendarmeria Training Centre in Grudziądz, he was assigned to the Gendarmeria Plutone in Plain. There is simply a message that he was a 2nd Branch soldier in charge of intelligence. After the USSR's aggression against Poland, however, he managed to escape from the prisoners' column. In 1940, he joined the OGM. He taught guerrilla training in Zhukov. He then operated in the National Army. He was squad commander, then platoon commander in the 3rd Lublin territory of the Lublin AK as part of the Lublin AK District. In August 1944 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-owces decided to desert. Soon, the NKVD began to look for him and began a 18-year period of hiding from power. At first, he was in Gdynia, Łódź, and then returned to Gdynia, where he was going to go to the West, but just before his planned departure he resigned from it.. At the turn of 1945/1946 he returned to Lublin.
Dolls participated in many assassinations against MBP officers. He was injured respective times and arrested once. In June 1946, the safety Office held a large manhunt; after respective detainees, including Doll, who had papers in a different name, the Ubecs went to the village of Chmiel for the wedding. erstwhile after the party, the truck with the arrested people was on its way to Lublin, the guerrillas threw themselves at the alcohol-induced MBP officers, overpowered them and killed 5 of them. The signal was to give Dolls. In 1947 Franczak joined the squad commanded by Captain Zdzisław Bronski.
The catch in the area of Chmiel was connected with the search for “Lev” – Antoni Kopaczewski, the manager of the Lublin Inspectorate WiN. A fewer months later, as a consequence of a tip and a "Lew" manhunt, he was shot as he fled the conspiracy quarters. respective people died in UB buildings, including the four-year-old daughter of the hosts. The puppet 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 underground guerrilla who, after revealing himself in 1947, contributed to the arrest of Zygmunt Libera and the death of his erstwhile commander – Zdzisław Broński – “Uskok”. Together with “Viktor” – Stanisław Kuchciewicz, “Dolek” besides killed another impounder – 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 October 21, 1963, in a manhunt of SB (Security Service) and ZOMO (Motorized Divisions of the Civic Militia) officers were killed in the village of Majdan Kozic Górnych in Lublin, Józef Franczak "Laluś", the last soldier of the independent Second Republic. His sisters, only 20 years later, could lay the body (deprived of the communists of the head) in the household tomb. The body was decompiled, decapitated. After many years of search, in January 2015, investigators from the Institute of National Memory found the skull of the last guerrilla underground of the St. Sergeant's independence. Józef Franczak “Lalusia” in the Medical University of Lublin collections. This is the consequence of an investigation conducted by the Lublin branch of the Institute of National Memory.
