Jerzy Zborowski Explained

Jerzy Zborowski
Nickname:Jeremi, Kajman Okularnik
Birth Date:26 July 1922
Birth Place:Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
Death Place:Warsaw, General Government
Placeofburial:Powązki Military Cemetery
Allegiance:Home Army
Branch:Grey Ranks
Rank: Porucznik (First lieutenant)
Unit:Parasol Battalion
Commands:Commander of the Battalion
Battles:Warsaw Uprising
Awards: Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari
Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta
Cross of Valour (twice)
Gold Cross of Merit with Swords

Jerzy Eugeniusz Zborowski (nom de guerre: Jeremi, Jurek, Jurek Kowalski, Kajman Okularnik, Jurek Żoliborski) was born on 26 July 1922 in Warsaw and died in September 1944 in Warsaw, Poland). Zborowski was a partisan during Operation Arsenal and the assassin of Franz Bürkl in 1943.[1]

He was a Polish Scoutmaster (harcmistrz), scouting resistance activist, porucznik of the Armia Krajowa and commander of the Battalion Parasol during the Warsaw Uprising. He was wounded during the Uprising and captured by the Germans. His subsequent fate remains unknown, he is assumed to have been murdered by the Germans.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Powstańcze Biogramy - Jerzy Zborowski . 2023-12-09 . www.1944.pl . pl.