National Day of Memory of the Cursed Soldiers, Polish State vacation celebrated annually on 1 March is dedicated to commemorating the heroes of Polish independence, anti-communist soldiers and independency underground after 1945.
This date was not chosen by accident. On that day, on 1951, in the Mokotov prison, the communists shot in the back of the head with a shot shot in the back of the head, murdered the leaders of the 4th Management Board of the WiN Association, Colonel Luka Ciepliński and his six soldiers, who were the last continuationrs of the fight against the russian occupation. Major A. Lzarowicz, Major M. Kawalec, Captain Franciszek Błazej, Józef Rzepka, Lieutenant Charles Chmiel and Lieutenant Joseph Batory. Many years had to go by so that the Kombatan communities, many patriotic organizations and families who died would have had a day dedicated to the memory of the “Cursed Soldiers” – the word was first utilized in 1993 in the title of the exhibition “ZW” organized by the Republican League at the University of Warsaw.
When late president Lech Kaczyński took the legislative initiative to pass a fresh feast in 2010, he recalled that ...” this is simply a tribute to the soldiers of the second conspiracy for testifying to the courage of the unbreakable patriotic attitude and attachment to patriotic traditions, for blood shed in defence of the Homeland.”
The Act was passed on 3 February 2011 and the MRLs were set on 1 March.
Today, the festival of “WZ” has 2 faces. On the 1 hand, it is simply a tribute to the soldiers of the anti-communist underground, on the other, an chance for the Polish state to rise young generations.’ The post-war independency conspiracy was, until the creation of Solidarity, the most many form of organized opposition of Polish society to the imposed power. In 1945 there were about 200,000 conspirators in the underground, grouped in various divisions. 20,000 of them fought in guerrilla troops. respective 100 1000 were people providing partisans with commissions, interviews, shelters, and communications. any 20,000 students from underground youth organizations fighting communists request to be counted, which gives a group of over half a million people forming a community of Cursed Soldiers.
Let's remind the heroes of that time: rtm. Witold Pilecki ps. “Witold” 1901-1948, planet War II's top hero. He was known for his different heroism – mostly as a volunteer to the German Auschwitz Concentration Camp. W. Pilecki captain of the Polish Army, co-founder of the Secret Polish Army, AK soldier, prisoner and organizer of the resistance. In 1940-43, voluntary prisoners in Oświęcim, where he founded an underground organization and documented the drama of the imprisoned and savagery of German torturers. A associate of the Warsaw Uprising and then a PES soldier in the West. After returning to the Polish Soviets enslaved, he became active in independency activity. Arrested by communists, subjected to a brutal, inhumanly terrifying investigation – after a judicial farce he was sentenced to death in Mokotowska Ubek executioner/Pavillion X/day 25.05.20148. We don't know the resting place until today. The investigation was supervised by Colonel J. Różański 1 of the biggest Stalinist criminals. “It was a joke,” said our national hero!
"Love the native earth. Love your holy religion and the tradition of your own people. Grow up into men of honor, always faithful to the highest values that you gotta service with your full life.”
Irena Iłlakowiczov of Mora's coat of arms Born 26.07.1906 in Berlin in a noble household from Kujaw – she was 1 of the most valuable operatives of Underground Poland during the German occupation. Thanks and advanced intelligence and German knowledge, she took part in intelligence missions in the capital of the 3rd Reich. She operated in the elite Lizard Union within the National Armed Forces. She conducted military, economical and communications reconnaissance in the enemy capital. However, Germany developed the grid and Mr Irena Gestapo stopped 7.X.1942 in Warsaw. Violently interrogated, she didn't betray anyone. Doctor Felician Loth of the University of J-go gave a advanced bribe to Pawiak's safety guard, he released Mr. Irena from his cell and mixed him into a group of prisoners to be transported to Majdanek. In March 1943, the brave action of NSZ soldiers from Pomerania dressed in Gestapo uniforms liberated her from this camp. She went to Dr. Miłodroska in Warsaw. She worked to destruct the communist radio station in Otwock, which was utilized to interact with Moscow. 4.X. 1943 she answered the telephone – she told her husband she had to leave – she was on the way of a radio station. erstwhile she didn't come home, her husband started looking. Her body was found in the infirmary morgue. She was shot in the back of the head in the Mokotowski Fields. The suspicion fell on “Red” and the PPR. The case remains unsolved until today. The communicative of her life is incredibly rich in events. She practiced mountaineering and skiing. She was fluent in French, German, English, Russian, Finnish and Persian. For respective years she was married to the Kurdish prince of Persia Aziz Zangenah.
Danuta Siekkówna ps. ‘INKA’ Born 309.1928, in Guszczowin close Narewka, Polish opposition activist of the Second planet War and People's Poland period, paramedic of 5 Vilnius AK Brigade operating in Gdansk Pomerania. Sentenced to death. conviction was made on 28.08.1946 in Gdańsk detention at Kurkowa Street. She was at the Gdańsk Cemetery. Together with Inka, Lieutenant Felix Selmanovich was sentenced to death.
Brig-Gen August Emil Fieldorf He built the structures of the organization “NO” – post-war opposition of the russian occupation. execution victim in 195 3rd. Captain Zdzisław Broński ps. “Uskok” He was among the most active commanders of the anti-communist partisan in Lublin. Major Jerome Dekutowski ps. “The Dam” was posthumously decorated by the president of the Republic of Poland with the Cross of the Grand Order of Polonia Restituta. Jan Taborowski ps. “Bruzda” mainly operated in the area around Łomża. Last opposition associate – Józef Franczak ps. “Dollek” from the division of Captain Zdzisław Broński "Uskok" died in a manhunt in Majdan, 18 years after the war of 21.10.1963. In order to celebrate memory throughout the country, the “Biagies of the Memory of the “Cursed Soldiers” are held on the 1963 Wolf Trail, i.e. the day of Franczak's death /because they lived by the law of the wolf. The words of Z. Herbert inspired mass culture to make the WW symbol a wolf.
The founders of Rybnika city do not follow the “wolf trap” and the youth in the city in abundance! Soldiers and commanders of the Polish underground are: Marcin Bernakik ps. “Orlik”, Z. Szendzielor Łupaszka, Joseph Kuras “Fire”, Stanisław Sojczyński “Warszyc”, Witold Pilecki “Witold”, August K. Fieldorf “Nil”, Władysław Konarski “Mścisław”, Franciszek Jaskulski “Zagończyk”, Tadeusz Zieliński “The Needle”. The shares of most troops of the Cursed Soldiers were directed at armed troops of UB, CBW, MO. The largest underground unit was the 6th Vilnius AK/WiN Brigade. More than 250,000 soldiers were active in the fight against the underground by the PRL safety Committee. NKVD and UB utilized unprecedented panic for the Polish population in liberated areas. Concentration camps and another places of isolation were created. For example, NKWD camp in Miedniki close Vilnius closed 8,000 AK soldiers. In Lubartów about 6,000 officers. Colonel Jan Zientarski's study to Leopold Okulicki's gene states: “The conditions in the fatal camp, all fewer days the age is transferred to a organization of prisoners in an unknown direction.” The second study of 27.03.1945. The bloody business of russian savagery surpasses German. Arrests in all village, murders, rape of girls, looting. The study by Colonel W. Liniarski /22.02.54 "NKWD" with all passion of rage arrests the commanders of the AK Bada in a beastly way, beats with barbed wire, inserts pins for nails, breaks ribs and exports to Russia behind Curzon's line, organizes raids on Poles and murders them on the place or transports them to work". In camps, prisons, as well as people who died in combat or during pacification, their bodies were buried in classified places inactive unknown. More than 50,000 people who died under court sentences were murdered or died in the safety Offices. It is widely believed that most of the independency of the armed organizations have fallen due to the deficiency of consequence of the US and the UK and the guarantors of the provisions of the Yalta Conference.
Saturday, March 1st, 2025, on the “Jączka” on the Capital Military Powązki at the graves of the fallen ZW, the president of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, appealed during the speech not to think that “there are no ones who are uncomfortable with the existence of free, sovereign, independent Poland. Those who would like to put their filthy paw on it, who would like to draw resources from it and suck the blood out of our nation, so it has already been many times in our history.” Tusk does not recognise any independence. The president calls on Poles to look into their eyes and realize what the game is about!
