This is another article devoted to Lt. Col. Bolesław Michał Nieczuja-Ostrowski “Bolko”, “Tysiąc” (1907-2008) who during the Second World War was an officer of the Polish Army, then of the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa – AK), and since 1944 the commander of the great unit of the AK: the 106th Infantry Division. The article is associated with the investigations conducted against this man and with a trial as a result of which he was sentenced to death. The author used mainly the materials prepared by the functionaries of the Office of Public Security during the inquiry and the trial that were conducted. The information was compared and extended by the data contained in the publications of Lt. Col. Nieczuja-Ostrowski that appeared after 1989. Ostrowski was accused of participation in “illegal organisations” after 1945, and previously he was accused of the contacts that were maintained by the soldiers of the division that he commanded (the division operated on the areas of the AK “Maria” Regional Inspectorate) with the representatives of the German occupation authorities, as well as the supposed killings of Soviet soldiers, people of Jewish ethnicity and communist activists. In the years 1946-1956 he was arrested a number of times, he was repeatedly interrogated, imprisoned and as a result of this he was sentenced to death two times. After the amnesty his sentence was reduced to 12 years of prison (he spent a total of more than seven years in prison).
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The aim of this article is to present the life and underground activities of Cpt. Bolesław Michał Nieczuja-Ostrowski (1907-2008) in the years 1939-1943. This article is based on the analysis of documents (in most cases made available by the Institute of National Remembrance) of interrogations and the story of Ostrowski’s life, frequently given by himself during this time. The information was confronted and supplemented with that included in published works and interviews with witnesses. Capt. Boleslaw Nieczuja-Ostrowski was born on September 29, 1907 in Halicz. He began his career as a soldier in 1928. In September 1939 he fought in the area of Różan thogether with the 115 Infantry Regiment, a part of the 41 Reserve Infantry Division (and later the 116 Infantry Regiment). He was captured by Germans on September 29. After his escape in October 1939, in Soviet-occupied Lviv he did conspiracy work: he established the „Lviv” Polish Military Organisation and then, upon the orders of Colonel Jan Sokołowski (codename Trzaska), became Commander of the Union of Armed Struggle of the City of Lviv. After leaving Lviv in May 1941, he was appointed to the position of weapons officer on the staff of the Krakow District of ZWZ. In August of 1942 he was entrusted with the organization and command of Chief Clandestine Weapons Production Command of AK Kraków District, codenamed „Insurance Office” (which dealt with the production of explosives, grenades, mines and later machine guns). In August of 1943, Kraków District Commander Col. Joseph Spychalski promoted Ostrowski to the rank of Major. In addition, from 15 September 1943, he was appointed Commander of the Miechów Inspectorate.
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The aim of the article is to present the service of Major Bolesław Michał Nieczuja-Ostrowski (1907-2008) in the Regional Inspectorate of the Home Army in Miechów, codename “Maria”, in the years 1943–1945. The author of the article used the documents which were drawn up by the communist authorities of Poland during the investigation that was conducted against Nieczuja-Ostrowski who was lieutenant colonel at that time and against the soldiers of the 106 DP AK formed in the area of the “Maria” Inspectorate of the Home Army. This information was confronted with and extended by the information contained in the publications that are available, and especially in the recollection-related works of General Nieczuja-Ostrowski. In August 1943, the commander of the Kraków Region of the Home Army, colonel Józef Spychalski, nominated him the Commander of the Miechów Regional Inspectorate of the Home Army which was a part of this district. Major Ostrowski assumed this function on 15 September 1943 and on 31 July he was nominated the commander of the 106th Infantry Division of the Home Army, a great military unit which was organised as a part of the effort to restore the Armed Forces, a process associated with Operation “Burza”/“Tempest”. From July 1943 until December 1944 about 20 thousand people were incorporated into the Home Army in the area of the Miechów Inspectorate.
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