Henryk Toruńczyk Explained

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.

See also

• Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War, 4th Rev. Ed. 2001.
• Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain, 2007.
• Cecil Eby, Comrades and Commissars, 2007.

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]