On 9 June 1946, the Ubecs executed Tadeusz Łabędzki

Tadeusz Łabędzki was born on December 24, 1917 in Philadelphia, United States. His father, Bronisław Łabędzki, was a associate in the 1905 revolution in the Kingdom of Poland.

For organizing the school strike he was sent to Siberia, where he managed to escape and emigrate to the US. After Poland regained its independence, the full household returned to the country in 1919 and settled in Mrodza Dolna close Brzezin.

Tadeusz attended the Nicolaus Copernicus Secondary School in Łódź, which he graduated in 1936. Already at a young age, he became active in national activities — he was part of the 3rd Łódź Scouts squad Romuald Traugutt and the National Secondary School Organization. After his graduation he began his studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw. At the time, he was very active in the national environment — he was active in the Academy Union of All-Polish Youth and in the National Party. From 1937 to 1939, he served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Wszewpolak”, which shaped the views of national youth in pre-war Poland.

After the outbreak of planet War II, he immediately joined the conspiracy. He was a co-founder and 1 of the leaders of the National People's Military Organization (NLOW), an armed faction of the National Party. In 1941, with the full organization, he again entered the structures of the SN. In 1943, after talking to Janusz Kornas, Zygmunt Zagórowski and another activists, he joined the creation of a unified structure of the All-Polish Youth in the conspiracy. In early 1944, in Warsaw, he reactivated this organization, taking the lead. At the same time he edited the conspiracy edition of “Wszewpolak”. The Warsaw MW Chorągiew led by him had a highest of about 125 members.

After the German occupation, he continued his independency activity in the National Military Union (NZW), an organization based on the Sovietization of Poland. In April 1946 he was ambushed by the safety Office in Leszek Roszkowski's flat at Gdańska Street in Łódź. After his arrest, he was transported to the Ministry of Public safety in Warsaw, where he was brutally interrogated. 1 of the investigating officers was the notorious MVP officer Adam Humer. Tadeusz Łabędzki was murdered on June 9, 1946. His body was buried in an unknown location.

The symbolic grave is present in the “On the Link” 4th at the Military Cemetery in Powązki, Warsaw, among many nameless victims of communist terror. His friends and associates from the conspiracy – Lechosław Roszkowski, Tadeusz Zawadziński and Jan Morawiec – were sentenced to death and executed.

In 2012, Tadeusz Łabędzki was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In Łódź, the street was named after him, and the memorial plaque was unveiled on the home where he lived. He was besides the uncle of Stefan Niesiołowski, a later anti-communist opposition activist. The latter, although at the beginning of the III Polish Republic co-founded the Christian-National Union, has been actively fighting nationalism in fresh years.