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Romuald Rajs
Romuald Rajs, ''nom de guerre'' "Bury" (30 November 1913 – 30 December 1949), was a Polish soldier, a member of Home Army (AK) and National Military Union (NZW), an anti-communist insurgent and war criminal. In 1946 the unit under his command burned several Belarusian villages in the region of Białystok and massacred about 79 villagers. He was sentenced to death in a show trial held by the Polish communist government in 1949, charged with membership in delegalized NZW. Following the trial, he was executed in 1949. The verdict was nullified by the Military Court of Warsaw in 1995. In 2005, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance conducted an investigation which revealed that his actions bear the marks of genocide against Orthodox Belarusian community in post-war boundaries of Poland. Rajs is revered by regional nationalist Polish groups as a hero which creates tensions with the local Belarusian and Eastern Orthodox inhabitants. Life In 1913, Romuald Adam Rajs was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabłonka, Podkarpackie Voivodeship
Jabłonka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dydnia, within Brzozów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately west of Dydnia, east of Brzozów, and south of the regional capital Rzeszów. References Villages in Brzozów County {{Brzozów-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Military Union
The National Military Union (; NZW) was a Polish anti-Communist organization, founded in November 1944, after the collapse of the Warsaw Uprising. It was among the largest and strongest resistance organisations established in the PRL in mid and late 1940s. The NZW was the result of a merger between the National Armed Forces and the National Military Organization. The NZW's name was intentioned to differentiate itself from the National Armed Forces. The National Military Union was aligned with and supported the Polish government-in-exile. NZW's first commander was Colonel Tadeusz Danilewicz, then Colonel Bogusław Banasik. The organisation was organised into sixteen "areas" and was most active in the districts of Białystok, Lublin and Rzeszów. It had several armed units, called Pogotowie Walki Zbrojnej, which fought many skirmishes with both the NKVD and the Soviet Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
01944 "Bury" Romuald Rajs
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech. * Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
