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Bronislaw Stanislaw  KALITOWICZ




6 August 1887 – 4 May 1940 (victim of Katyn Genocide)

 

 

6 August 1887

Born in Zadonsk, Russia.

Son of Stanislaw Kalitowicz, born around 1860,

and Maria Oktawia Szostakowska, born in 1866, died in 1948.

1914

He graduates as a doctor in medicine at the university of Odessa.

 

He marries Kazimiera Adler, in Kaunas, Poland. He is around 27 years old.

1917

He is mobilised and posted to the 1st corps in the East of Poland and fights against the Bolsheviks.

1 June 1919

He works as a house doctor at the Kutno hospital (between Warsaw and Poznan).

1919 / 1920

He joins the Blue Army with the General Haller. Under the command of Pilsudski, he will fight again the Bolsheviks.

1920 / 1921

He is posted successively to two country hospitals, (Units 906 and 605) in the 11th Field Artillery Regiment.

Reserve of the Light Artillery Battery N°3 (Great Poland), 7th Division of the Light Artillery, then at the 4th regional hospital.

May 1922

At that date, he leaves the army but remains a reservist.

16 October 1926

Birth in Krakow of his daughter Maria Teresa Alekxandra Kalitowicz.

1938

He is mobilised again and posted to the 3rd regional hospital.

1939

He is made prisoner by the Russians and jailed at Starobielsk Internment Camp.

He is 53 years old…

4 May 1940

 

He is executed (Katyn massacre) on the site of Kharkov in Ukraine.

In Oswiecim Church (Auschwitz, Poland) there is a memorial for all the Katyn victims whose families lived in Auschwitz (9 men).

 

His wife and his family first lived in Tomaszowmaz (near Lodz).

 

From 1957 to 1964 they lived in Koscierzyna near Gdansk.

 

From 1964 to 1990 in Oswiecim (Auschwitz).

 

From 1990 and still today his descendants live in Gdynia.

 

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