Groby bohaterów w Kłodzku. Kim byli pochowani na cmentarzu komunalnym w Kłodzku
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00:00 Every year, the graves are honoured by the President of the Council of Ministers with a symbolic
00:08 sign. Today, in Kłodzko, a member of the anti-communist opposition in the 1980s was honoured
00:17 at the Żołyński Cemetery. He was an independent student, a flyer reporter.
00:24 During the war, he was interned in the camp in Kłodzko. He did not stop his activities.
00:32 He was devoted to his homeland all his life. Today, we honour his dedication to this.
00:40 It is also worth noting that he is a Cavalier of the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity.
00:46 This high national status was awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland.
00:51 Mr. Grzegorz, I have one more question. Are there many heroes at the Kłodzko Cemetery?
00:55 The Kłodzko Cemetery on Dusznicka Street, which is the second cemetery in Kłodzko,
01:01 and there is also a cemetery on Szpitalna Street, is a very interesting place in terms of history
01:10 and the figures and people who were buried here.
01:15 In addition to our loved ones, we also have many honoured for our country, for our homeland,
01:23 for Poland, independence activists, soldiers, first of all, insurgents.
01:30 There are a lot of these people. You can look at the categories.
01:34 There are veterans of the First World War, the Polish-Bolshevik War,
01:38 soldiers of the active pre-war service, teachers who joined the army as reservists in 1939,
01:45 soldiers of September 1939, independence conspiracy, both AK, national,
01:53 HLOP, in the form of HLOP battalions.
01:56 We also have post-war conspiracy, members of the Resolution of Independence.
02:01 A very wide range, a wide group are the soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces in the West.
02:07 We have many aviators, we have soldiers of the Polish Second Corps here.
02:11 We have Mrs. Celina Wardak, for example, so I will allow myself to give a name,
02:15 which I personally saw a photo with Miss Wojtek.
02:18 So the range of these characters who are here is very large,
02:22 but it should also be noted that a lot of these characters are still waiting to be discovered.
02:31 It is a titanic work.
02:33 Thanks to the fact that we have wider and wider access to sources,
02:37 I think that maybe it will be completed someday.
02:39 It is in my opinion, made for now, maybe 20%.
02:43 The Klocki Historical Society also runs biographies on its website.
02:47 Where can we find them?
02:48 Yes, if any of you would like to know what I encourage you to do,
02:53 I invite you to the website bohaterklocko.wordpress.com.
02:58 There you will find a number of biographies already developed.
03:02 A lot of biographies are waiting in line.
03:05 We can also contact you through the Facebook page of the Klocki Historical Society,
03:10 which I also encourage.
03:11 If you have any souvenirs of your loved ones, relatives, friends,
03:17 I encourage you to share.
03:19 We will help, maybe we will try to direct,
03:21 so that we can get more information about these people from the family circle.
03:27 We are at the grave of Felix Szczepaniak,
03:30 the legendary commander of the partisan bomb squad in Wołyń,
03:33 27th Infantry Division.
03:36 After the end of the war, Felix Szczepaniak was in the area of Klocki.
03:40 He first lived in Klocki, and then in Raszków, as the school principal,
03:45 he managed until his last days and lived there.
03:51 The grave is commemorated.
03:53 Yes, the grave is commemorated with the inscription to the evidence of the graves of veterans of the war
03:58 carried out by the Institute of National Remembrance,
04:00 but also the insignia of the 27th Infantry Division is commemorated,
04:05 where it is commemorated with the care of the 27th Infantry Division from Wrocław.
04:10 Kazimierz Olechnowicz, participant of the Polish-Bolshevik war, Battle of England.
04:14 Yes, we are at the grave of Major Olechnowicz, a resident of Klocki,
04:18 and a pre-war officer of the Polish Army, a pioneer of aviation
04:23 from the period of the First World War and the Polish-Bolshevik War.
04:29 Later, he was a permanent officer,
04:32 called to military service in 1939,
04:37 already from the time of his reservation.
04:40 He fought in September 1939, then he moved to France, England.
04:45 There he also served in the Polish Air Force.
04:48 He returned to Klocki, already on retirement,
04:51 he lived on Kolejowa Street, died in the 1970s,
04:55 he was buried here recently.
04:58 It was also possible here by the efforts of our association,
05:02 but also of the residents of Klocki,
05:04 with the expensive financial contribution of the residents of Klocki and the help to restore this tomb.
05:10 It looks just like today.
05:12 We have honoured the memory of this officer with a niche.
05:16 I am at the tomb of Kazimierz Sośnicki,
05:20 an activist of the Chłopski People's Movement,
05:24 and a pre-war teacher,
05:27 but also an active member of the People's Movement.
05:34 In 1939 he was mobilized.
05:40 After the end of the war, he worked in the Chłopski battalions,
05:46 in the People's Guard.
05:49 He was practically all his life associated with the People's Movement.
05:55 At the end of the war, due to poor health,
06:00 he withdrew from this activity,
06:03 but he came to Klocki and here, as we speak,
06:06 he also continued his activities in the People's Movement.
06:09 He was the first president of the PSL district committee in Klocki.
06:15 He was persecuted by the Security Service,
06:22 including torture in Wrocław.
06:26 He paid a high price for it,
06:30 for the cancer, for the tuberculosis.
06:35 He could not stand it and died in 1947,
06:39 at a fairly young age.
06:41 The Chłopska area was a place where
06:45 demobilized soldiers from the West came to.
06:52 We are talking about the 2nd Polish Corps of General Anders,
06:57 or soldiers who served in the units in England.
07:01 We are standing next to the grave of two soldiers
07:05 from the 2nd Polish Corps of General Anders.
07:08 Józef Michałek and Tadeusz Rozborski,
07:11 veterans of the Monte Cassino fight.
07:14 The group is marked with the insignia of the Grave of a Veteran
07:19 of the Independence of Poland,
07:21 entered into the IPN registry.
07:23 Right next to it is also the tomb of Major Leon,
07:27 Viktor Ovadiuk, who was the first commander
07:31 of the Regional Supplementary Command in Klocki.
07:34 It is possible that these gentlemen
07:36 met right after arriving from England,
07:39 because it is possible that Major registered
07:42 their military inquiries here in this area.
07:46 Major Ovadiuk, also a defender of Lviv
07:48 and a participant in the September campaign "Battle of Wzór".
07:51 Yes, a very brave figure.
07:53 Soldier of the 37th Infantry Regiment,
07:57 marked with the Silver Cross of Merit.
08:00 Many medals that we can see here on the tomb.
08:04 Defender of the Eastern Territories and Lviv,
08:09 participant in the September campaign "Battle of Wzór".
08:12 And as I said, after the war,
08:14 the first commander of the Regional Supplementary Command in Klocki.
08:17 Thank you.
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