Stanisław Kasznica

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Stanisław Józef Bronisław Kasznica (July 25, 1908 – May 12, 1948) was the last commander of the National Armed Forces (NSZ), an anti-communist, and anti-Nazi paramilitary organization, which was part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and in the period following it.

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Biography He was born in Lwów, and his father, Stanisław Wincenty Antoni Kasznica, was rector and professor of the Poznań University in Greater Poland. During World War II he initially fought in the Polish Army, joining the National Armed Forces resistance group after the defeat of Polish military. He participated in the September Campaign of 1939, serving as a reconnaissance officer and then as commander of the 1st Platoon of the 2nd Battery in the 7th Horse Artillery Divizion of the Greater Poland Cavalry Brigade under the command of General Roman Abraham. In General Tadeusz Kutrzeba's Army, he fought in the Battle of the Bzura, advanced from Kutno to Warsaw, and defended the capital. For these actions, he was awarded the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari. From October 1939, he was a leading underground activist of the so-called Szaniec Group (a wartime continuation of the National Radical Camp (ONR-ABC) and one of the co-founders of the Military Organization Lizard Union, a military organization outside the ONR, organizing civilian commissariats on behalf of the ONR-ABC. In Warsaw, he headed the communications of the Lizard Union and the National Armed Forces, while also heading the legal and administrative group and the…Citește mai mult

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He was arrested by the Polish communist secret police, the Urząd Bezpieczeństwa, in February 1947, tortured and condemned to death by a communist Polish court. He was executed on May 12, 1948, in the Warsaw Mokotów Prison. His symbolic grave is located at Warsaw Powązki Cemetery. Kasznica used numerous nom de guerres, including Stanisław Wąsacz, Wąsowski, Przepona, Służa, Maszkowski, and Borowski. On November 1, 1990, at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw, within the Łączka Headquarters, a monument was unveiled at the initiative of the Social Committee for the Construction of a Monument. It commemorates 241 victims of communist murders from the period 1944–1956, including Stanisław Kasznica. His remains were discovered in 2012 during excavations at the Łączka Headquarters (among 117 people) by researchers from the Institute of National Remembrance, led by Professor Krzysztof Szwagrzyk. They were subsequently identified by specialists from the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin as part of the Polish Genetic Database of Victims of Totalitarian Regimes program. This was announced on February 20, 2013. On May 11, 2013, a commemorative plaque honoring Stanisław Kasznica and his brother Jan Kasznica was unveiled on the grounds of the 1st High School in Poznań. On September 27, 2015, Lieutenant…Citește mai mult