Alojzy Wir-Konas, also known as Antoni Konas and by the pseudonym Wir (13 May 1894 – spring 1940), was a Polish infantry colonel of the Polish Army, a recipient of the Virtuti Militari, and a victim of the Katyn massacre. During the September Campaign of 1939, he commanded the reserve 38th Infantry Division. Wounded on 17 September 1939 while attempting to reach besieged Lwów, he was later taken into Soviet captivity, imprisoned at Starobielsk, and murdered by the NKVD in Kharkiv in spring 1940. In 2007 he was posthumously promoted to brigadier general.
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