Kazimierz Kamieński ( nom de guerre "Gryf" and "Huzar"; born 8 January 1919 in Markowo-Wólka, died 11 October 1953 in a communist prison in Białystok) was an officer of the

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, commander in the underground Polish

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(AK), ROAK and the anti-communist organization

Freedom and Independence Freedom and Independence Association ( pl, Zrzeszenie Wolność i Niezawisłość, or WiN) was a Polish underground anticommunist organisation founded on September 2, 1945 and active until 1952. Political goals and realities The main purpose of it ...

(WiN). He was one of the longest fighting soldiers of the Polish anti-Communist resistance after World War II. Kamieński was arrested on 23 October 1952 in

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by the Polish communist secret police. After a brutal investigation on 26 March 1953 the military district court in Warsaw, during the away session in Łapy, sentenced him summarily to six consecutive death sentences. He was executed on 11 October 1953 at 1:30 pm in the Białystok prison. His symbolic tomb is located at a cemetery in Poświętne. It was only after the

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that the district court in Białystok annulled his sentence on 13 March 1997. President of the Republic of Poland

Lech Kaczyński Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (; 18 June 194910 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010. Before his tenure as president, he pre ...

decorated Kamieński posthumously with the Grand Cross of the Order Virtuti Militari on 11 November 2007. Prezydent odznaczył "żołnierzy wyklętych."
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, 30 March 2011. Quote: Prezydent Lech Kaczyński odznaczył, w Święto Niepodległości, przywódców niepodległościowych, antykomunistycznych grup zbrojnych. Pośmiertnie Krzyżem Wielkim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski odznaczeni zostali "Łupaszka", "Huzar" i "Młot".

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