Re: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Anders monument unveiled
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Linda Cimachowicz
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHello Lenarda and John, ? The same thing must have happened to my father-in-law! On Sept. 18, 1939 he was taken captive by the Russians and then released two years later when the Germans invaded. His papers say he was released to Amnesty. Now I know why, thanks to all you other curious people. ? Thank you, Linda Cimachowicz, California ? From: Kresy-Siberia@... [mailto:Kresy-Siberia@...] On Behalf Of Lenarda Szymczak
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:48 PM To: Kresy-Siberia@... Subject: RE: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Anders monument unveiled ? ? This is brilliant news and fitting for a Polish Hero.? Just suppose, imagine that Hitler never turned on Stalin, the fate of the Polish People would be much different and perhaps Stalin would have tried to conquer Hitler and still take Poland.? So in a strange way, Hitler aided the Polish cause by forcing Stalin to release our people.? But most important, our hero has come home and is honoured in his birth place. Regards, Lenarda, Australia ? From: Kresy-Siberia@... [mailto:Kresy-Siberia@...] On Behalf Of John Halucha ? ? It's puzzling to read that Anders was "captured by the Soviets in February 1940". He wrote that on?Sept. 30, 1939 he walked to Jesionka Stasiowa and was reported by a villager to militiamen and Soviet troops, then driven across Turka to Stary Sambor. Wounds meant some time in hospital for treatment prior to being put into a cell, but he was clearly in Soviet captivity from the end of September 1939. ? John Halucha Sault Ste Marie, Canada ? ? Monument to Gen. Anders unveiled30.04.2013 07:10 A monument to WW II hero General Wladyslaw Anders has been unveiled in Krosniewice, central Poland, the birthplace of the commander of Polish troops at Monte Cassino. photo - PAP/Grzegorz Micha?owski His daughter, Anna Maria, who attended the ceremony, was evidently moved by the occasion. She spoke of her strong attachment to her father and said that he always had time for her. ¡°Even though he lived in London, Poland was always the most important for him. He believed that he would be able to return to his homeland,¡± Anna Maria Anders said. The ceremony was also attended by local officials and veterans of the Second Polish Corps. Lieutenant Stanis?aw P?osinski recalled General Anders as a commander who was genuinely interested in the life of each and every of his soldiers. General Anders, who was born in Krosniewice in 1892, was for many Poles, especially those living in exile, an iconic figure. He was captured by the Soviets in February 1940. When Hitler turned on Stalin in June 1941, he was released from the Lubyanka prison in Moscow and was later given the task of forming an army from the survivors of the one and a half million Poles who had been captured in 1939 or later deported into the Soviet Union. General Anders led some 77,000 soldiers accompanied by over 43,000 civilians who had suffered starvation in labour camps and gulags out of the Soviet Union into Persia. In 1943 the Second Polish Corps under General Anders¡¯ command landed in Italy and in May 1944 suffered great losses in the capture of Monte Cassino. After the war, the communist government in Poland deprived Anders of Polish citizenship and military rank. They were posthumously reinstated after the collapse of communism in 1989. General Anders died in London on 12 May 1970, the 26th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino, and was buried, in accordance with his last will, at the Polish War Cemetery at Monte Cassino in Italy. |