Narcyz Wiatr (nom-de-guerre "Zawoja"
["Okruchy historis; Patroni ulic" (Crumbles from history; street patrons)]
/ref> and "Władysław Brzoza";[Andrzej Przybyszewski, "Z dziejów Krakowskiego Okręgu SZP-ZWZ-AK W 60. rocznicę utworzenia Armii Krajowej" (From the history of the Kraków Region SZP-ZWZ-AK, on the 60th anniversary of formation of the Armia Krajowa), ''Kwartalnik Edukacyjny'' nr1/2002, p. 2]
/ref> 19 September 1907 – 21 April 1945) was a Polish people, Polish political activist, member of the agrarian Polish People's Party (SL), a prisoner at the Bereza Kartuska prison
Bereza Kartuska Prison (, "Place of Isolation at Bereza Kartuska") was operated by Poland's Sanation government from 1934 to 1939 in Bereza Kartuska, Polesie Voivodeship (today, Biaroza, Belarus). Because the inmates were detained without trial ...
and during World War II
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a leader of Peasants' Battalions (''BCh'') an anti-Nazi underground resistance movement, with the rank of colonel
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In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of ...
,.[Teresa Czerniewicz-Umer, "Cracow", DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), 2007, p. 251]
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Biography
Wiatr was born on 19 September 1907 in Stróże, Nowy Sącz County, Stróże.[Biuletyn Instytutu Pamieci Narodowej, Nr. 2, March, 2001, p. 31]
/ref> Before the war Wiatr studied Law and Economics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
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, where he became active in youth organizations associated with the ''Ludowcy'' (agrarian) movement. Between 1937 and 1939 he was the chief of the SL in Nowy Sącz
Nowy Sącz (; hu, Újszandec; yi, Tzanz, צאַנז; sk, Nový Sonč; german: Neu-Sandez) is a city in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship of southern Poland. It is the district capital of Nowy Sącz County as a separate administrative unit. It has ...
.[ He helped to organize a farmer's strike in the ]Beskidy
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region, for which he was arrested and imprisoned at Bereza Kartuska for six weeks, along with other political activists.[
He was one of the commanders of the organization " Chłostra" (an acronym of ''Chłopska Straż'' – Peasants' Guard).
From 1941 until 1945 he was the commander of the VI Region of the BCh in ]Małopolska
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and Silesia
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,[ and was active in the organization SL-Roch (the wartime successor of People's Party).][ After the merger between BCh and the Polish ]Home Army
The Home Army ( pl, Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK; ) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) esta ...
(''AK'') (within which, BCh retained its own officers and command structure) he was the second in command of the Kraków
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Region of the AK.[
After the formation of the communist ]Polish Committee of National Liberation
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"Lublin Committee" and the subsequent political takeover of Poland by the communists, Wiatr issued an order to members of his organization (order No. 186) in which he recommended against SL and BCh members joining the structures of the new communist authorities.[ Because of the persecution directed at the former members of the anti-Nazi underground by the communist authorities, Narcyz decided to stay partially underground and did not "reveal" himself to the local secret police office.][
Narcyz Wiatr was murdered on 21 April 1945 in ]Planty Park Planty may refer to:
* Planty Park Planty may refer to:
* Planty Park, a city park in Kraków, Poland
* Planty, Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
* Planty, Aube, France
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