Aleksander StawarzW dziennikach personalnych M.S.Wojsk. z 1924, 1928 i 1932 r. jako datę urodzenia podano 7 lipca 1896 r. codename: Leśnik, Baca (7 August 1896,

Nowy Targ Nowy Targ (Officially: ''Royal Free city of Nowy Targ'', Yiddish: ''Naymark'', Gorals, Goral dialect: ''Nowy Torg'' ) is a town in southern Poland, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is located in the Orava-Nowy Targ Basin at the foot of the Go ...

- 28 January 1941,

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) was a

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Colonel. In the

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Stawarz served in Polish Legions. Since 1918 in the Polish Army he took part in the Polish-Bolshevik war, he distinguished himself during street fights in

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and the battle of Kalinówka. During the

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Stawarz was commander of the "2nd Highland Brigade" of the Army Karpaty. From 1939 until 1941 he was the founder and commander of the resistance unit "Dywizja Podhalańska", which was part of the ZWZ. He was arrested by the

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and murdered in the German

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