Jan Ciszek

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Jan Ciszek (1847-1922) - Highlander of the Tatra Mountains, insurrectionist from 1863, Curriculum vitae

He came from the Black Dunajec in Podhale. He was born in 1847, educated at a gymnasium in Bochnia. In 1863, when the January Uprising broke out, he was a fourth-grade student, dropped out of school and joined the Krukowiec branch of the Galicia army formed in Galicia. Austrian border and was arrested. After escaping from custody, he re-established himself and fought in the army of Colonel Karol Kality-Rębajła. He was a participant in the clashes with Russian troops at Bodzentyn, Slupia, Holy Cross. On September 29, 1863, at the Battle of Jeziorak, he was wounded and taken into captivity in Russia, deported to Russia. He went to Moscow, where he was sentenced and sentenced to military court sent to Symbirsk. After the fire of the Symbolic prison, he was transported to Nizhny Novgorod, then to Tula, where he worked on the construction of the railway line, then stayed in Kazan where he was released. After three years of exile he returned to the country, after which he was incorporated into the Austrian army, to the 20th Infantry Regiment. In the army he served another three years, the army left the rank of feldfebla-manipulant. He ran a farm and founded a family.

At that time he was involved in the folk movement of Father Stojałowski, then Stapiński. In 1889 he went to America, did not find a satisfactory job and returned to Podhale after a half-year stay. He wrote a short diary, which was published in 1927, in Gazeta Podhalańska (no. 5 and 6), pt. Memories of the insurgent from 1863 with introduction and footnotes by Gustaw Kaleński.

Jan Ciszek died on January 20, 1922 in the Black Dunajec. Bibliography

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