Stanisław Widl

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Stanisław Widal (born August 14, 1896 in Marcinkowice, Nowy Sącz district, shot in June 1942 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp) - Polish Army officer (75th Infantry Regiment), commander of the Chorzów National Defense Battalion, Nazi Prisoner. > Curriculum vitae

He graduated from high school and junior high school in Nowy Sącz.

In August 1914, as an eighteen-year-old, he volunteered for the Polish Legions. He was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Regiment, the 15th Rifle Regiment. In May 1918, after the Battle of Kaniow, he entered German captivity, where he was held until the end of the year.

After his return he joined the Polish Army and was assigned to the backup reserve of the 1st Regiment of Podhale Riflemen. Named second lieutenant, commanded a platoon in the 1st battalion of that regiment. In September 1919 wounded on the Galician-Volynian front. He returned to health, as an adjutant and then commander of the III Battalion in the 75th Infantry Regiment.

From September 1937, he was in command of the Chorzów National Defense Battalion, which organized volunteers from the Polish social organizations from scratch. Just before the outbreak of the war, the battalion had over half a thousand men, including 20 officers and over 120 NCOs. Armed with a repetitive weapon - carbines (kb) and carbines (kbk), in addition to 18 heavy machine guns (ckm) and two mortars.

A week before the outbreak of World War II, after the mobilization, the battalion ON was reorganized; His soldiers fought within the framework of the special battalions of the Fortress Area of ​​the Warlow "Silesia".

Less than three weeks after the war, appointed commander of the Polish Victory Service of Nowy Sącz, he organized an armed resistance movement in Sadecki. In March 1941 he was arrested and imprisoned in the Montelupich prison in Cracow. From there he was taken to the concentration camp in Auschwitz and then shot in June 1942. Bibliography

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