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Alojzy Wir-Konas, the Glossary

Alojzy Wir-Konas (born Alojzy Konas, 1894–1940) was a military commander in the Polish Army, commanding the 38th Infantry Division during the Invasion of Poland.^[1]

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Executed people from Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Katyn massacre victims
People from Maków Podhalański
Polish murder victims
Polish people executed by the Soviet Union

Austro-Hungarian Army

The Austro-Hungarian Army, also known as the Imperial and Royal Army,lit; lit was the principal ground force of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918.

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Bronisław Bohatyrewicz of Ostoja (24 February 1870 – 9 April 1940) was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Bronisław Bohatyrewicz are Executed military leaders, Katyn massacre victims, Polish generals and Polish military personnel killed in World War II.

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Carpathian Army

Karpaty Army (Carpathian Army) was formed on 11 July 1939 under Major General Kazimierz Fabrycy after Nazi Germany created a puppet state of Slovakia and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed after the events that lead to the breakup of Czechoslovakia.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Concentration camp

A concentration camp is a form of internment camp for confining political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or minority ethnic groups, on the grounds of state security, or for exploitation or punishment.

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Franciszek Sikorski

Franciszek Józef Sikorski (4 October 1889 Lwów – spring 1940 Kharkov) was a Polish engineer, Brigadier general of the Polish Army and a murdered victim of the Katyn Massacre. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Franciszek Sikorski are Katyn massacre victims.

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Henryk Minkiewicz

Henryk Minkiewicz (19 January 1880 – 9 April 1940) was a Polish socialist politician and a general of the Polish Army. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Henryk Minkiewicz are Katyn massacre victims, Polish Army officers, Polish generals and Polish military personnel killed in World War II.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, 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 Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

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Italian front (World War I)

The Italian front (Fronte italiano; Südwestfront.) was one of the main theatres of war of World War I. It involved a series of military engagements in Northern Italy between the Central Powers and the Entente powers from 1915 to 1918.

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Katyn massacre

The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 defenceless Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD (the Soviet secret police), at Stalin's order in April and May 1940.

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Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski

Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski (13 September 1890 – 1940) was a Polish military commander and one of the Generals of the Polish Army murdered by the Soviet Union in the Katyń massacre of 1940. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski are Katyn massacre victims, Polish generals and Polish military personnel killed in World War II.

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Kazimierz Sosnkowski

General Kazimierz Sosnkowski (Warsaw, 19 November 1885 – 11 October 1969, Arundel, Quebec) was a Polish independence fighter, general, diplomat, and architect. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Kazimierz Sosnkowski are Polish generals.

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Kharkiv

Kharkiv (Харків), also known as Kharkov (Харькoв), is the second-largest city in Ukraine.

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Konstanty Plisowski

Konstanty Plisowski of Odrowąż (8 June 1890 – 1940) was a Polish general and military commander. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Konstanty Plisowski are Executed military leaders, Katyn massacre victims, Polish Army officers, Polish generals and Polish military personnel killed in World War II.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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Leon Billewicz

Leon Billewicz (April 25, 1870 in Werbiczna – April 1940) was a Polish officer and a General of the Polish Army. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Leon Billewicz are Katyn massacre victims, Polish Army officers, Polish generals and Polish military personnel killed in World War II.

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Leonard Skierski

Leonard Wilhelm Skierski (26 April 1866 – 1940) was a Polish military officer. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Leonard Skierski are Executed military leaders and Katyn massacre victims.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

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Maków Podhalański

Maków Podhalański (known as Maków until 1930) is a town in southern Poland, on the Skawa river.

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Mieczysław Smorawiński

Brigadier General Mieczysław Makary Smorawiński (1893–1940), was a Polish military commander and officer of the Polish Army. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Mieczysław Smorawiński are Katyn massacre victims, Polish Army officers, Polish generals and Polish military personnel killed in World War II.

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NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946.

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Oath crisis

The Oath crisis (Kryzys przysięgowy; German: Eidkrise) was a World War I political conflict between the Imperial German Army command and the Józef Piłsudski-led Polish Legions.

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Pinsk

Pinsk (Пінск; Пинск,; Pińsk; Пінськ) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus.

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Piotr Skuratowicz

Piotr Skuratowicz (1 August 1891 – 1940) was a Polish military commander and a General of the Polish Army. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Piotr Skuratowicz are Katyn massacre victims, Polish generals and Polish military personnel killed in World War II.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish Historical Society

Polish Historical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne, PTH) is a Polish professional scientific society for historians.

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Polish Land Forces

The Land Forces are the land forces of the Polish Armed Forces.

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Polish Legions in World War I

The Polish Legions (Legiony Polskie) was a name of the Polish military force (the first active Polish army in generations) established in August 1914 in Galicia soon after World War I erupted between the opposing alliances of the Triple Entente on one side (comprising the British Empire, the French Republic and the Russian Empire) and the Central Powers on the other side, comprising the German Empire and Austria-Hungary.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).

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Romanian Bridgehead

The Romanian Bridgehead (Przedmoście rumuńskie; Capul de pod român) was an area in southeastern Poland that is now located in Ukraine.

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Rudolf Prich

Rudolf Prich (6 August 1881 – 1940) (eng.) was a Polish military officer and a major general (pol. generał dywizji) of the Polish Army. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Rudolf Prich are Katyn massacre victims, Polish generals and Polish military personnel killed in World War II.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stanisław Haller

Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg (26 April 1872 – April 1940) was a Polish politician and general who was murdered in the Katyn massacre. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Stanisław Haller are Katyn massacre victims, Polish generals and Polish military personnel killed in World War II.

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Starobilsk

Starobilsk (Bilsk; Starobelsk) is a city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.

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Sudova Vyshnia

Sudova Vyshnia (Судова Вишня) is a small city in the Yavoriv Raion of the Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine.

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Surname

A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.

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Tarnów

Tarnów is a city in southeastern Poland with 105,922 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants.

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Virtuti Militari

The War Order of Virtuti Militari (Latin: "For Military Virtue", Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari) is Poland's highest military decoration for heroism and courage in the face of the enemy at war.

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Whirlwind

A whirlwind is a phenomenon in which a vortex of wind (a vertically oriented rotating column of air) forms due to instabilities and turbulence created by heating and flow (current) gradients.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Xawery Czernicki

Rear Admiral Xawery Stanisław Czernicki (1882–1940) was a Polish engineer, military commander and one of the highest-ranking officers of the Polish Navy. Alojzy Wir-Konas and Xawery Czernicki are Katyn massacre victims and Polish military personnel killed in World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alojzy_Wir-Konas

Also known as Alojzy Konas.

Alojzy Wir-Konas, the Glossary

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See also

Executed people from Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Katyn massacre victims

People from Maków Podhalański

Polish murder victims

Polish people executed by the Soviet Union

References