Second Lieutenant pilot Janina Lewandowska wasn’t really the only woman, who died in Katyn, but the only female soldier who was shot there.
22.04.1908 – Janina Lewandowska – a pilot who loved life
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31.10.1906 – Marian Malinowski – Exile, fugitive, minister
On 31 October 1906 Marian Malinowski set off, as he himself put it, “on a journey into the unknown at government expense.”
7.07.1892 – Jan Czerski – Scientist, Insurgent, Exile
He died on 7 July (25 June according to the Julian calendar) 1892 on the Siberian river Kolyma.
20.05.1881 – Władysław Sikorski is born
God looks into my heart. He sees and knows my intentions, which are pure and honest. My only goal is a free, just and great Poland, he said to...
5.12.1867 – Józef Piłsudski’s Birthday
On December 5, 1867, Józef Piłsudski was born at the manor house in Zułów.
6.07.1866 – Polish Uprising beyond Lake Baikal
On the night of 6 to 7 July (24/25 June old style) 1866, 5,000 kilometres east of their homeland, a group of January insurgents sent to Baikal for penal labour stirred up a rebellion, disarmed their guards and tried to forge an escape route to Mongolia.
12.02.1833 – Glass and eye
On 12 February 1833, Aleksander Czekanowski was born in Krzemieniec in Volhynia. He trained as a geologist, but was not given the freedom to pursue his career as he was sent to Siberia at the age of 30 for taking part in the January Uprising.
30.11.1830 – The outbreak of the November Uprising
“Poles! The hour of vengeance has come. Today die or prevail! Let us go, and let your breasts be Thermopylae for your enemies!”
28.01.1819 – Jan Kiliński, ordinary shoemaker – great man
Jan Kiliński – a shoemaker, Warsaw councillor, one of the commanders fighting in the Kościuszko Insurrection, a symbol of patriotism, today the patron of numerous streets, schools, scout troops… He is less known as an exile to Siberia.
4.11.1794 – Some sort of devilish lust for destruction…
This is what journalist Bruno Korotyński wrote in 1924 about the slaughter in Warsaw’s Praga district. It was one of the last, and at the same time most tragic, episodes of the Kościuszko Uprising. On 4 November 1794, after the Polish army had been defeated, Cossacks slaughtered about 20,000 civilian inhabitants of the right bank of the capital.