Edmund Baranowski

Jan Ołdakowski and Edmund Baranowski (right), 2010

Edmund Baranowski (born on September 22, 1925 in the Warsaw district of Wola ; died on December 29, 2020 ) was a Polish resistance fighter and participant in the Warsaw Uprising .

Life

Edmund Baranowski was a student at a Warsaw high school at the time of the German invasion . Despite the German occupying power's ban on secondary schools , Baranowski continued his education at an underground school. In 1941 he first joined the Armed Struggle Association, later the Armia Krajowa . He received the pseudonym "Jur". While working at the Philips factory in Warsaw, he took part in numerous acts of sabotage.

In the Warsaw Uprising (1944) he fought in the "Batalion Miotła" (German: "Bataillon Besen"). On September 15, 1944, he was injured, later awarded the Cross of Bravery and made a lieutenant. On October 5, he was taken prisoner by Germany and taken to the Stalag Mark Pongau in Austria . There he had to drive tunnels into the mountains in a work detail , in which Polish cultural goods stolen by the National Socialists were to be housed. These could later be found thanks to the memories of the prisoners of war.

In 1945 Baranowski returned to Poland and worked in construction after completing his training. Later Baranowski was vice-chairman of the Warsaw Insurgent Union and council chairman of the foundation "Warsaw Fights 1939-45". He was awarded the Warsaw Uprising Cross and the Order of Polonia Restituta . He also served as Secretary General of the Board of Trustees of the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation .

Baranowski died at the end of December 2020 at the age of 95.

Web links

Biography: Edmund Baranowski. In: RBB : "Germans and Poles". Accessed December 30, 2020
Contemporary witnesses: Edmund Baranowski. In: fpnp.pl. Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation , archived from the original on December 3, 2016 .; accessed on December 30, 2020

Individual proof

^ Zmarł Edmund Baranowski “Jur”. Powstaniec warszawski miał 95 lat. In: polsatnews.pl. December 30, 2020, accessed December 30, 2020 (Polish).

personal data
SURNAME	Baranowski, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 22, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 2020

[1] Zmarł Edmund Baranowski “Jur”. Powstaniec warszawski miał 95 lat. In: polsatnews.pl. December 30, 2020, accessed December 30, 2020 (Polish).