Henryk Toruńczyk Explained

Henryk Toruńczyk
Birth Date:8 February 1909
Birth Place:Włocławek, Russian Empire
Death Place:Warsaw, Polish People's Republic
Placeofburial:Powązki Military Cemetery, Warsaw
Allegiance:Polish People's Republic
Branch:International Brigades
Polish People's Army
Rank: Pułkownik (Colonel)
Unit:XIII International Brigade
Polish Independent Special Battalion
Internal Security Corps
Commands:Commander of the XIII International Brigade
Commander of the Internal Security Corps
Awards:

Col. Henryk Torunczyk, born in Włocławek, (1909–1966) was a Polish soldier. He later volunteered to fight with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He was sometime commander of the Naftali Botwin Company; Chief of Staff[1] of XIII International Brigade and leader of an International Unit[2] formed in January 1939 from a rump of Brigade veterans who remained in Spain after demoblisation.[3] They crossed the border in Spain on about 9 January 1939[4] He later became a partisan.[5] From 1943 he was instrumental in forming the Samodzielny Batalion Szturmowy.[6] In 1945 he was briefly commanding officer of the Polish Internal Security Corps.

He is also called: Henrik Torunczyk and Henrik Tourunczyk.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.ogqn.com/odb_gce/epr/brigadas/xiii_bi.htm Order of Battle site
  2. "A ghost brigade ... [it] soon fell apart" Eby, Comrades and Commissars, p 415.
  3. Thomas, The Spanish Civil War, p 855
  4. Beevor, The Spanish Civil War, p855.
  5. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/spanjews.pdf AJEX: Jews in the Spanish Civil War
  6. [Ryszard Terlecki]