Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski "Laudański" (20 April 1924 in
Bydgoszcz
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– 22 June 1998 in
Ciechocinek) was a noted Polish soldier during
World War II
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, and later an engineer and inventor, as well as writer.
Bio of Juliusz Deczkowski.
Life
Deczkowski left school in 1939, the year of the September Campaign
The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Sovie ...
, and joined the Home Army
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. During the invasion, he became a runner with the Polish Scouting Association, which was then operating as the underground Szare Szeregi
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The wartime organisation was created on 27 September 1939, actively resisted and fought German occupation in Warsaw until 18 ...
. In 1944, he took part in the Warsaw uprising
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as a member of the Batalion Zośka
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.
In 1949, during the darkest years of Stalinism in Poland
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, he was arrested by the Polish security service and in 1950, he was convicted and sentenced by a military court to 5 years in prison. After the death of Joseph Stalin
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, he was released from prison on March 23, 1953. After his release, he graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology
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in November 1953, and became an inventor of medical equipment. On December 29, 1956, the Supreme Court of Poland
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The legal basis for the competence and activities of the Supreme Court is the Constitution of Poland, Polish Consti ...
rehabilitated him, clearing his name from his 1950 conviction.
He published in Poland two books of wartime memoirs "Wspomnienia żołnierza baonu AK "Zośka" and "Wróbel" z "Kamieni na szaniec".
Works
* Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski "Pamiętniki żołnierzy baonu "Zośka" I edition – 1957, VI edition in 1997
* Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski "Wspomnienia żołnierza baonu AK "Zośka", Instytut PAN, 1998
* Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski "Wróbel" z "Kamieni na szaniec", Ascon, 1992
See also
*List of Poles
This is a partial list of notable Polish people, Polish or Polish language, Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.
Physics
*Miedziak Antal
* Czesław Białobrzesk ...
References
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1924 births
1998 deaths
Military personnel from Bydgoszcz
Warsaw Uprising insurgents
Polish prisoners and detainees
People detained by the Polish Ministry of Public Security