08/02/2022
Today, on February 6, exactly 100 years ago in 1922, Professor Witold Kieżun, Officer of the Home Army, Soldier of the special unit during the Warsaw Uprising, outstanding economist, was born 🇵🇱
In the Uprising, during the victorious assault on the Main Post Office, he took 14 German prisoners of war by himself (he obtained a manual machine gun, 14 rifles and 2,000 rounds of ammunition).
In August 1944 he was ordered the Cross of Valor. On September 23, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari by General Bor-Komorowski directly during the fighting, and in October 1944 he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant.
After the Warsaw Uprising, he escaped from a German transport transporting insurgent soldiers to POW camps. He got to Krakow, made contact with the local branch of the Home Army.
In March 1945 he was arrested by the NKVD. Interrogated in Montelupich. He did not disclose any names and did not admit to his underground activities (in accordance with the prohibition on disclosure issued by General Okulicki).
On May 23, 1945 transported through Siberia to the Soviet labor camp in Krasnowodsk in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (now Turkmenistan), on the edge of the Kara-kum desert.
There he experienced an extreme form of exhaustion. The patient with pneumonia was taken to the camp "hospital", where, during his four-month stay, he additionally suffered from typhus, dystrophy, mumps, scabies and beriberi, an extreme form of avitaminosis.
He returned to Poland under an amnesty in 1946. He was still imprisoned by the communist Security Office in Złotów.
After his release, he began law studies at the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University, which he graduated in 1949 (previously, during the occupation, he studied at the secret Law Faculty of the University of Warsaw).
He lectured on management, incl. at Temple University in Philadelphia and the University of Montreal. He worked in Burundi, first on behalf of the United Nations, then as Canada's representative. In Burundi, he helped build a modern administration.
Professor Kieżun passed away in June last year.
Glory to the Heroes! 🇵🇱
via: Polska Wikipedia
