Franciszek Błażej

Captain Franciszek Błażej (noms de guerre "Roman", "Bogusław") was born 1907 in an unknown location, in southeastern Poland. He was a professional officer of the Polish Army, and participated in the Polish September Campaign. Some time in the early 1940s, he joined the Rzeszów division of the Union for Armed Struggle (later the Home Army).

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In 1945 he became a member of the Rzeszów division of the anti-Communist organization Freedom and Independence (WiN). He was editor-in-chief of the WiN magazine "White Eagle", and between December 1946 and fall 1947, Błażej was the director of the Southern Department of WiN. Captured by the Ministry of Public Security in November 1947 in Kraków, he was beaten and tortured in the Mokotów Prison for so long that his body started to rot and gangrene set in.

In October 1950 Błażej was sentenced to death. Executed with a shot in the head on 1 March 1951, his body was buried in an unknown location.

References

http://www.electronicmuseum.ca/Poland-WW2/polish_veterans/socha/socha.html
http://www.rzeszow.uw.gov.pl/main.php?muid=3&mid=127&akID=5022&cid=809070c69fd2cd36
http://www.powstanie-warszawskie-1944.ac.pl/zw_win.htm
http://www.projectinposterum.org/docs/chodakiewicz3.htm
(English) WiN | Freedom and Independence - A Historical Brief by Dr. Janusz Marek Kurtyka, Ph.D., Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, IPN, Poland.

Home Army (Armia Krajowa)

Main articles: Polish resistance movement in World War II; Polish Underground State

Operations

Uprisings and battles	Warsaw Uprising Zamość Uprising Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Lwów Uprising Murowana Oszmianka Osuchy Ostra Brama Tempest

Underground, field, and espionage	Arsenal Heads Kutschera Project Big Ben Bürkl Most III Operation Belt V1 / V2 Wieniec

Propaganda	Biuletyn Informacyjny Operation N Operation Antyk

Directorates	Civil Resistance Covert Resistance Underground Resistance

Political	Republic of Pińczów

Personnel, emblems and decorations

Commanders	Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski Stefan Rowecki Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Leopold Okulicki

Senior officers and prominent members	J.Aleksandrowicz J.Arkusz K.K.Baczyński H.Bartnicka-Tajchert W.Bartoszewski J.Batory R.Białous S.Bittner F.Błażej A.Bohdziewicz J.Bokszczanin S.Braun T.Gajcy H.Lederman S.Jankowski S.Karpiel K.Kierzkowski B.Kostrzewska H.Krahelska A.Krzyżanowski L.Kulej J.J.Lerski J.Mazurkiewicz W.Micuta K.Moczarski A.Nadolski T.Pełczyński A.Pilch W.Pilecki R.Reiff Z.Romanowiczowa Z.Rumel J.Rutkowski D.Smoleński A.Stelmachowski R.Syski J.Szczepański Z.Szendzielarz A.Szklarski H.Szwarc E.Umińska J.Zabłocki J.Zabłocki A.Zakrzewska W.Zalewski J.Zamoyski T.Zawadzki T.Żenczykowski M.Żuławski T.Żychiewicz

Membership lists	Armia Krajowa members Warsaw Uprising insurgents

Emblems and decorations	Armia Krajowa Cross Kotwica Krzyż Powstania Warszawskiego

Units, affiliates, and predecessors

Headquarters and Directorates	Information and Propaganda Kedyw Civil Resistance Covert Resistance Underground Resistance

Combat units	27 Volhynian Division Battalion Parasol Battalion Zośka Żaglowiec Group Żbik Group Żmija Group Żniwiarz Group Żyrafa Group

Warsaw commands	I Śródmieście Żoliborz III Wola IV Ochota V Mokotów VI Praga VII Warsaw suburbs

Other	Błyskawica radiostation Little Andrews (Jędrusie) Underground Police (PKB) Secret Military Printing Works (TWZW) Silent Unseen (Cichociemni) Wachlarz

Predecessors	Service for Poland's Victory (SZP) Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ)

Affiliates	Peasants' Battalions (BCh) Confederation of the Nation (KN) Leśni (Forest Soldiers) National Military Association (NOW) (split) National Armed Forces (NSZ-AK) (faction) Camp of Fighting Poland (OPW) Gray Ranks (Szare Szeregi - Boy Scouts) Secret Polish Army (TAP) Socialist Party People's Guard (GL-WRN) Union of Retaliation (ZO)

Successors	Independence (NIE) Freedom and Independence (WiN)

Opponents and rivals

Opponents	Nazi Germany UPA Ukrainian Insurgent Army Lithuanian Security Police

Rivals	NSZ National Armed Forces (split) AL Armia Ludowa (People's Army) Soviet partisans

Related articles: The Holocaust in Poland; Warsaw Uprising; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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Franciszek Błażej

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