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    The Union of Armed Struggle (Polish: Związek Walki Zbrojnej; ZWZ), also translated as the Union for Armed Struggle, Association of Armed Struggle, and...
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    Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk (category Polish resistance members of World War II)
    prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp. She later joined the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ-AK) resistance group, and carried messages for them. She was...
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    November 1939 SZP was renamed Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ). Związek Walki Zbrojnej Home Army Stanislaw Mikolajczyk The Pattern of Soviet Domination Sampson...
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    were eventually convinced by the party to accept the continuation of armed struggle was a mistake. The rebellion was on the defensive, restricted to its...
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    Stefan Rowecki (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    then in 1940 commander, of the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ). In 1941, Rowecki organized sabotage in the territories east of the Polish pre-war borders...
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    Polish resistance movement in World War II (category Military units and formations of Poland in World War II)
    from the Union of Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej or ZWZ, itself created in 1939) and would eventually incorporate most other Polish armed resistance...
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    Wanda Pełczyńska (category Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland)
    Government (BBWR). During World War II, she was associated with the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ) in Vilnius. She was arrested by the Soviet authorities in...
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    Palmiry massacre (category World War II massacres of Polish intelligentsia)
    taken by the executioners in Palmiry were stolen by members of the Union of Armed Struggle. Probably the first executions in the forest glade near Palmiry...
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    National Military Organization (category Military units and formations of Poland in World War II)
    did not merge with the Service for Poland's Victory (SZP)/Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ); later Home Army (AK). Nevertheless, it recognized the Polish...
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    Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the...
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    arrested Leon Ciszak and Franciszek Bawor, leaders of the local units of the Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army, who were then imprisoned in the notorious...
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    government since the mid-1920s, the SZP was reorganized into the Union of Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej, ZWZ) on 13 November 1939. Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski...
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    year, she was back in Łuków when war broke out. She joined the Union of Armed Struggle resistance movement, helping to distribute anti-fascist news articles...
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    Franciszek Niepokólczycki (category Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    colonel of Polish Army. During World War II, commander of the Union of Retaliation, officer of the Union of Armed Struggle and the Kedyw of Home Army...
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    NKVD prisoner massacres in Lviv (category History of Lviv)
    titular general of the Polish Armed Forces), Antoni Konopacki (lawyer, member of the National Council at Lviv's Union of Armed Struggle), Adam Kozakiewicz...
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  • 1945-1946 (series V and VI), the series tells a story of Union of Armed Struggle/Armia Krajowa/Armed Forces Delegation for Poland soldiers commonly referred...
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    Mogilno (category Sites of World War II massacres of Poles)
    beheaded in Poznań in 1942. Bogdan Friedrich, commander of the local unit of the Union of Armed Struggle was arrested by the Gestapo in mid-1942 and died in...
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    Jerzy Tabeau (category Polish resistance members of World War II)
    of the "Polish major" in the Auschwitz Protocols. After the war, he became a noted cardiologist in Kraków. Tabeau was a member of the Union of Armed Struggle...
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    the region, with Toruń being the seat of one of the six main commands of the Union of Armed Struggle in all of occupied Poland. In January 1945 it was...
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    Poland's Victory, the Union of Armed Struggle and finally the Home Army. He took part in the Operation Ostra Brama as commanding officer of the East group attacking...
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    the fate of many remains unknown to this day. The Polish resistance movement was active in the region, including the Union of Armed Struggle, Bataliony...
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    was connected to the Katowice Inspectorate of the ZWZ (Polish: Związek Walki Zbrojnej, Union of Armed Struggle), a precursor organization to the Polish...
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    August Emil Fieldorf (category Recipients of the Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    initially joined the Union of Armed Struggle in Warsaw and from 1941 in Wilno and in Białystok. A year later he was given command of the Kedyw (special...
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    result of the union of forces, the number of personnel formed a brigade and were referred to as the Yarmouk Brigade. After the union of the armed forces...
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  • prisoners of the Fort VII concentration camp, incl. 120 women, in the forest of Dębienko. February: The regional branch of the Union of Armed Struggle begins...
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    Aleksander Krzyżanowski (category Polish deportees to Soviet Union)
    artillery colonel of the Polish Army, officer of the Service for Poland's Victory, Union of Armed Struggle, commander of the Vilnius District of the Home Army...
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    War (redirect from Armed struggle)
    War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command...
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    Józef Cyrankiewicz (category Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland)
    University. He became secretary of the Kraków branch of the Polish Socialist Party in 1935. Active in the Union of Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej, later...
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    Urszula Plenkiewicz (category Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta)
    and served as a soldier in the Sub-district V of Mokotów of the District of Warsaw Union of Armed Struggle. Plenkiewicz was apprehended by the Gestapo in...
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    Mieczysław Kawalec (category People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria)
    Rzeszów District of Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ) (later Armia Krajowa). From 1945, he was the commander of the Rzeszów District of the anti-Communist organization...
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