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Marsz śmierci

ewakuacja więźniów z Mińska do Czerwieni 24-27 czerwca 1941 r.

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An edition of Marsz śmierci (1999)

Marsz śmierci

ewakuacja więźniów z Mińska do Czerwieni 24-27 czerwca 1941 r.

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Oficyna Wydawn. Volumen, Rada Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa
Language
Polish
Pages
284

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Subjects

Death marches, Lithuanian Personal narratives, Polish Personal narratives, Soviet Prisoners and prisons, World War, 1939-1945

Places

Belarus, Minsk Region
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Marsz śmierci: ewakuacja więźniów z Mińska do Czerwieni 24-27 czerwca 1941 r.
1999, Oficyna Wydawn. Volumen, Rada Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa
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Table of Contents

The FOREWORD of the author follows the INTRODUCTION, where I inform READERS how I was searching the survivers of the the ex-prisoner’s, who took part in”March of Death” and how I obtained the books on the subject and extracted from the chapters about “March of Death” to have the material on this subject as a whole.
Two drawings show the way prisoner’s marched and the place where the actual monuments are situated.
Part One - opens with the story “Bloody Travel by Stages”, based on the diary writen in 1941 with up to date commentaries by Joanna Stankiewicz.
Next comes the chapter, How they shot us excerpt from the book by a Lithaunian Colonel Jonas Petruitis edited in 1942 in Wilno, and translated into Polish.
Followed by another extract from the book ”Road to Czerwień” by other Litauanian Colonel Juozas Tumas, edited in Canada.
The story of future Commandant of Nowogródek region of Polish Home Army was first published in London 1944 in the book “Katyń w świetle dokumentów” (Katyń in the documents).
Part II contains a chapter “Mohylew Highway” from the book entitled “If I will forget them...” by Grażyna Lipińska, edition SPOTKANIA, Warszawa 1990.
Part III contains the stories collected in interviews:
1.Janina Badocha “ That wasnt a terrible dream” (a thriller)
2.Władysław Bruliński “Et contra spem spero’”(And I hope against the hope – a Latin saying).
3.Jan Buczyński "The testimony of truth"
4.Kazimiera Chylińska “I remember”
5.Stanisław Cieciuch "A long ago souvenirs”.
6.Stefan Darmochwał “The tragic moments of my life”.
7.Konstanty Gierżydowicz “Such fate they prepared for us”.
8.Jan Jankowski “The bits of souvenirs”.
9.Tadeusz Kisielewski “Tajbo Stare (the names of a village) and its inhabitents”.
10. Kazimierz Królikowski “Such was reality”.
11.Leon Łajewski "It was like that”
12.Michał Łukaszewicz “Thanks to Providence”.
13. I survived the hell”.
14. Piotr Przestrzelski “Such was our youth”.
15.Jan Staniszewski “I wanted so much forget it”
16. Mikołaj Złocki “But I survived it”
17.Zabłocki “Story told by his wife”.
At the end of the book there is a list of known to me prisoner’s, who took part in the “March of Death” Polish citizens and separately Lithuanians, and list of persons still living in 1990-ties.
Each story contains short CW and date, place and circumstances of arrests, the jails in which prisoner’s remained and the most detailed description of the life in Mińsk jails, where most of the prisoner’s had been brought in the years turn 1940 and 1941, from different jails on the territory occupied by the Red Army on September 17th 1939. There were thousands of prisoner’s, which had to be judged at the beginning of 1941.
In Mińsk there existed two jails for political prisoner’s: the Central Jail in the Sapieha`s Family Castle and second “Amerykanka” (because of its modern shape and conditions) “Okrąglak”(round-shaped). In this second jail prisoniers were not only kept, but also persecuted and the
Supreme Court worked there some two weeks on the turn of January and February 1941. Lot of prisoner’s have been sentenced to death by President of Military Coledge of Supreme Court of Soviet Union Wasilij Ulrych very experienced judge for political processes since
1935-37, when he sentenced to death: Tuchaczewski, Bucharin. Zinoview and other communist leaders.
In most of the stories you will find the description of the judgement and the names of other prisoniers being in the same cell (compartment,) what has permitted me to search for them and find them or their families when the prisoner’s were already dead.
At the end of the book there is the list and adresses of the persons who survived the “March of Death”, the list of the persons who took part in the “March of Death’ and a very detailed list of Litauens in the “March of Death”, as well as some photos of the celebration of the
Anniversary of the March (each year since 1994 last Saturday or Sunday of June.)
After the book was edited I received one more story from Arizona in USA.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281) and indexes.

Published in
Warszawa
Series
Historia najnowsza
Genre
Personal narratives, Polish., Personal narratives, Lithuanian.

Classifications

Library of Congress
D805.S65 S734 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
284 p. :
Number of pages
284

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL4021901M
ISBN 10
8372331928
LCCN
2001407385
OCLC/WorldCat
48200985

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL6251010W

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Library of Congress MARC record

Work Description

SUMMARY of the book “March of Death” or the afoot evacuation of the prisoniers from Mińsk jails in the days 24-27th June 1941 up to CZERWIEŃ, by Joanna Stankiewicz-Januszczak

Edited by Oficyna Wydawnicza VOLUMEN & Rada Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa
WARSZAWA 1999.

This book consists of:

Joanna`s Stankiewicz diary written in 1941 starting from 21st June 1941, when she still was in a soviet jail in Mińsk. The diary titles in Polish “Krwawy Etap’(Bloody travel by stages) contains the dates 21st, 24th,25th, 26th,27th, 28th,29th June and 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4rth, 6th and 7th July., where the March of Death is described in details up to the moment when we arrived in Radoszkowice (a Polish border town with Soviet Union before 1939)

This Diary was the base to compare with all further relations of interviewed survivors of the March of Death.

With the end of WWII Poland was under soviet control, and everyone was obliged to keep silent about the KGB crimes.

It was only until the 1990-ties I could quietly inform that I was in a soviet jail; and start looking for the persons who survived “the March of Death”. Naturally I couldn't meet the person(s) who survived the jail but died before 1992.

The task of searching of the ex-prisoniers was a rather difficult one as I didnt have any addresses and had to travel many times not knowing in details where I have to look after this person. But thank to the help of many people and especially of the very kind ladies from Polish Central Addresses Office in Warsaw I met in 1944-1996 at least 20 ex-prisoniers and obtained 18 relations about “March of Death”.

The book begins with introduction of late Prof. Tomasz Strzembosz, (who appreciated this book very much), informing that all killings of so many prisoniers was not accidential cases of cruelty of individual KGB men. It was planned crime fullfilled according to the super secret order of soviet government dated June 10th, 1941, foreseeing the killing in soviet jails, of the prisoner’s called “first category” (that means political). This evacuation is later called “Katyń encore”.

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