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Kwatera na Łączce - burial place of the murdered exiled soldiers in the Powązki cemetery
Expelled soldiers (Polish: Żołnierze wyklęci ) are the Polish resistance fighters of the anti-communist underground organizations who fought against the pro- Soviet communist regime in the People's Republic of Poland from 1944 to 1963 .
Anti-communist resistance organizations
- Wolność i Niezawisłość (WiN) - freedom and independence
- Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (NSZ) - National Armed Forces
- Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe (NZW) - National Military Association
- Konspiracyjne Wojsko Polskie (KWP) - Polish Underground Army
- Ruch Oporu Armii Krajowej (ROAK) - Resistance movement of the Home Army
- Armia Krajowa Obywatelska (AKO) - Civil Home Army
- NIE (abbreviation of the word Niepodległość - independence)
- Delegatura Sił Zbrojnych na Kraj (DSZK)
- Wolność i Sprawiedliwość (WiS) - Freedom and Justice
The last " exiled soldier" - Józef Franczak - was killed on October 21, 1963 near Piaski .
National Remembrance Day of the Exiled Soldiers
President Bronisław Komorowski at the memorial plaque for the victims of communist terror in front of the Mokotów prison on the Remembrance Day of the Outcast Soldiers, March 1, 2011
Since 2011, the National Day of Remembrance of the Exiled Soldiers ( Narodowy Dzień Pamięci "Żołnierzy Wyklętych" ) has been celebrated in Poland on March 1st .
Web links
Commons : Exiled Soldiers - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Archeology of terror
- The Doomed soldiers: Polish Underground Soldiers 1944–1963 - The Untold Story (English)
- WiN: Freedom and Independence - Historical Brief (English)
- Żołnierze wyklęci. Antykomunistyczne podziemie na Rzeszowszczyźnie po 1944 roku (Polish)
- Expelled Soldiers (Polish)
- Fundacja Żołnierzy Wyklętych (Polish)
- Fundacja Pamiętamy (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Żołnierze Wyklęci: Długotrwałość oporu. Institute for National Remembrance
- ↑ Day of the Expelled Soldiers . Polskie radio. Retrieved March 2, 2013.