Battalion Zośka

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Badge of the Zośka Battalion
Soldiers of the Zośka battalion captured two German panther tanks.
Members of the Zośka Battalion during the Warsaw Uprising
Liberated Jews from Gęsiówka concentration camp together with fighters from the Zośka battalion in 1944
Graves of the members of the Zośka Battalion in the Powązki Cemetery , November 1, 2011

The battalion "Zośka" (Polish: Batalion "Zośka" ) was a unit of the Polish scout movement Szare Szeregi in World War II and fought in the Warsaw Uprising as part of the Polish Home Army against the German occupation of Poland .

history

The movement was founded in August 1943 by members of the Szare Szeregi scouts. The unit was named after the resistance fighter Tadeusz Zawadzki , who had adopted the battle name Zośka.

The battalion was one of two scout battalions that were directly involved in the Warsaw Uprising. The unit suffered great losses. Over 300 members of the force were killed or were missing.

The unit was also instrumental in the liberation of the Gęsiówka concentration camp . After the conquest of Poland by the Red Army, the movement was disbanded and most of its members were sent to Soviet prisons.

literature

  • Anna Borkiewicz-Celińska: Batalion "Zośka" . Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw, 1990, ISBN 978-8306018516 .
  • Andrew Borowiec : Warsaw boy: a memoir of a wartime childhood . London: Viking, 2014
  • Aleksander Kamiński: Zośka i Parasol: opowieść o niektórych ludziach i niektórych akcjach dwóch batalionów harcerskich. Iskry, Warszawa 2009, ISBN 978-83-244-0091-1 .
  • Agnieszka Pietrzak: Żołnierze Batalionu Armii Krajowej "Zośka "reprjonowani w latach 1944-1956. Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Warszawa 2008, ISBN 978-83-60464-92-2 .
  • Pamiętniki żołnierzy baonu Zośka. Nasza Księgarnia, Warszawa 1986, ISBN 83-10-08703-9 .

Web links

Commons : Zośka Battalion  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrzej Suchcitz: Gray rows (Gray Ranks). polishresistance-ak.org
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 8: Riga, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 .