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 |
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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.