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Zygmunt Szendzielarz | |
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Nickname(s) | Łupaszka, Łupaszko |
Born | 12 March 1910 Stryj, Galicia, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 8 February 1951 (aged 40) Mokotów Prison, Warsaw, Polish People's Republic |
Cause of death | Execution by shooting |
Awards | Order of Virtuti Militari (Gold Cross) Order of Virtuti Militari (5th Class) Cross of Valour |
Spouse(s) | 1. died 1945 2. Lidia Lwow-Eberle (unmarried) |
Zygmunt Szendzielarz (12 March 1910 – 8 February 1951, nom de guerre "Łupaszka".[1]) was the commander of the Polish 5th Wilno Brigade of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) and after the Second World War fought against the Red Army.
Following the postwar Soviet takeover of Poland he was arrested, accused of numerous crimes, and executed in Warsaw's Mokotów Prison as an anti-communist diehard soldier.
In 1993, after the fall of communism, he was rehabilitated and declared innocent of all charges. In 2007 Polish president Lech Kaczyński posthumously awarded him the order of Polonia Restituta.