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Władysław Wiecierzyński, the Glossary

Władysław Wiecierzyński (April 15, 1894 – February 22, 1983) was a Polish colonel who was a commander of the Polish Armed Forces and was a knight of the Virtuti Militari.^[1]

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People from Suwałki

Border Protection Corps

The Border Protection Corps (Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza, KOP) was a military formation of the Second Polish Republic that was created in 1924 to defend the country's eastern borders against armed Soviet incursions and local bandits.

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Chełmno

Chełmno (older Culm; Kulm, formerly also Culm) is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 18,915 inhabitants as of December 2021.

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Cross of Independence

Cross of Independence (Krzyż Niepodległości) was the second highest Polish military decoration between World Wars I and II. Władysław Wiecierzyński and Cross of Independence are Recipients of the Cross of Independence.

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Cross of Merit (Poland)

The Cross of Merit is a Polish civil state decoration established on 23 June 1923, to recognize services to the state.

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Cross of Valour (Poland)

The Cross of Valour (Krzyż Walecznych) is a Polish military decoration.

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Dobiegniew

Dobiegniew (Woldenberg) is a town in western Poland, in Lubusz Voivodeship, in Strzelce-Drezdenko County.

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Imperial Russian Army

The Imperial Russian Army or Russian Imperial Army (Rússkaya imperátorskaya ármiya) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917.

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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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Krotoszyn

Krotoszyn (Krotoschin, קראטאשין Krotoshin) is a town in west-central Poland with 29,485 inhabitants.

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Leszno

Leszno is a historic city in western Poland, seat of Leszno County within the Greater Poland Voivodeship.

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Leszno Voivodeship

Leszno Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship.

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Lida

Lida (Ліда,; Лида,; Lyda; Ļida; Lida,; Lyde) is a city in Grodno Region, western Belarus, located west of Minsk.

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Linz

Linz (Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria.

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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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Medal for Long Service

The Medal for Long Service (Polish: Medal za DługoletniąSłużbę) is a Polish decoration awarded in three classes (gold, silver and bronze) to members of the Polish Armed Forces and other uniformed services, and to civil servants who have honorably completed 30, 20 or 10 years of service to the State.

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Ministry of National Defence (Poland)

The Ministry of National Defence (Polish: Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej, MON) is a office of government in Poland headed by the Minister of National Defence.

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Modlin, Nowy Dwór County

Modlin was a village near Warsaw in Poland near the banks of rivers Narew and Vistula.

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Northwestern Front (Russian Empire)

The Northwestern Front (Се́веро-За́падный фронт) was an army group of the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War.

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Oflag II-C

Oflag II-C Woldenburg was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located about from the town of Woldenberg, Brandenburg (now Dobiegniew, western Poland).

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Polish Armed Forces (Second Polish Republic)

Polish Armed Forces (Wojsko Polskie) were the armed forces of the Second Polish Republic from 1919 until the demise of independent Poland at the onset of Second World War in September 1939.

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Polish Military Organisation

The Polish Military Organisation, PMO (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa, POW) was a secret military organization that was formed during World War I (1914–1918).

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Polish People's Republic

The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland.

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Polish–Soviet War

The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before it became a union republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy following the Partitions of Poland.

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Raid on Fraustadt

The Raid on Fraustadt (Wypad na Wschowę) was a military raid, carried out by the Polish Army on September 2, 1939, the second day of the Invasion of Poland.

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Ravensbrück concentration camp

Ravensbrück was a Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel).

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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SGH Warsaw School of Economics

SGH Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, SGH Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie.) is the oldest and most prestigious business school in Poland. SGH Warsaw School of Economics was founded in 1906 as a private school named August Zieliński Private Trade Courses for Men.

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Stutthof concentration camp

Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German-annexed Free City of Danzig.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Wiecierzyński