Posted on 08/28/2016 7:34:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Two Polish Second World War heroes who fought the Germans but were killed later by the communists in Poland for pro-independence activity have received a state burial.
The relatives of 17-year-old Home Army nurse Danuta Siedzikowna and 42-year-old officer Feliks Selmanowicz attended the ceremonies on Sunday along with government officials.
The burials were held in the northern city of Gdansk where the two were captured....
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Never forget.
Heroes are always the enemies of tyranny.
Please read the book entitled “The Long Walk” by Slavomir Rawicz. It’s a true story of a trek to freedom.
I read it for prep for SERE school. Excellent.
I’ll also add, for all to read, ‘In My Hands’ by Irene Gut Opdyke.
She is my Polish Heroine 1,000 times over! She was SO brave! SUCH an Angel to My People, when it mattered most!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Gut_Opdyke
*BUMP* Thanks for bringing him to my attention. :)
Polish-made movie about “Inka”, unfortunately it’s not subtitled in English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h7031Cpg7g
We’ve led such lives of ease, haven’t we? I’d LIKE to think I could be this brave (Irene or Witold) but hopefully I’ll never need to find out.
I’ve always been drawn to these types of heroes and their stories. Maybe their heroics resonate someplace within my reptilian brain? ;)
Bkmrk.
Never trust a Russian or a muzzi.
Another great book on Polish WW2 pilots.
A Question of Honor.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001334IVU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#nav- subnav
The Poles laid the ground of what would become BletchleyPark.
What a great story. He truly is a hero.
I have read very little about it, but there were certainly a good number of Polish heroes who stopped the Russian invasion of Poland in 1920. I wonder how far the Red army would have gotten in the early 1920’s if Poland had not stopped them.
Berlin? Paris?
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