" Our heroes "- the title of a wall calendar for 2009 ., issued by the Krakow Branch of the Institute of National Remembrance. Publisher prepared in connection with the falling next year, 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
"Calendar presents figures from September 12, 1939, which actually are not known to the wider public, but these are the real heroes of history really unusual," - evaluates the Cracow IPN spokeswoman, Dorothy Solak.
Each of the twelve monthly calendar of papers is devoted to a different form. The front page contains the photo and short biography of the hero, and on the back - a long description of the event in which he became famous. IPN historians have sought to calendar notes are written in accessible language.
For the first six pages of the calendar zamieszono sequence profiles: col. Kazimierz Mastalerz , whose squads have carried out on 1 September 1939 the charge of cavalry Krojantami, Lt.-Col. Pamuły Leopold, who in the fight against three German fighters shot down an enemy aircraft and one rammed its own machine; Cpt. Wladyslaw Raginis , commander of the section "Wizna" on the Narew, where Polish soldiers for more than forty two days stopped numerous German forces, Gen. Maczek , a prominent commander of the Polish armored units in World War II; Gen. Thaddeus Kutrzeby , commander of the Polish armies in the Battle of Bzura, which was the largest clash with German forces in the September Campaign, and Cpt. John Grudzinski, commander of the submarine "Orzel".
second part of the calendar reminds characters: Lt.-Col. Narcissus Łopianowskiego , whose squadron destroyed 17 Soviet tanks into Kozłowcami, col. Stanislaw Dabek, whose soldiers defended the institution against the Germans in Gdynia and Oksywie for 19 days, much longer than resisted Westerplatte, Cdr. cf Zbigniew Przybyszewski , commander of the artillery duel with the German battleships Hel "Schleswig-Holstein" and "Schlesien" Gen. Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemanna , the hero of the Border Protection Corps, General Franciszek Kleeberg , the winners from the Kock and co-drivers Janina Carella, the only woman who was murdered in Katyn.
Maciej Zakrzewski from the Office of Public Education in Krakow IPN stresses that the choice of 12 characters from all the heroes of September 1939, it was very difficult. Often been decisive in the selection of educational value, the ability to reject dishonesty in some threads Polish September. This was the case of the Polish cavalry, which - as more mobile and more effective than the infantry - has played in the September Campaign a very important role. However, ridiculed by the German and later peerelowską propaganda to survive until the undeserved grades.
"This calendar is also a tribute to those who have been inducted in it, a symbol of heroism and heroes of that time," - added Zakrzewski.
calendar has been released with a circulation of five thousand. copies. Krakow branch of calendars sent to 10 branches and seven of delegations of the IPN in Poland, which release will be distributed free to schools, libraries and similar institutions. Besides the calendar, as the school's scientific assistance will be available for download in PDF format from the website of the IPN.
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