B. Ratter: "I would commit a crime by describing the brave actions of these people against the background of their lives"
date:30 September 2023 Editor: Anna
CarcinomaLvivMuseum of Polish HistoryBilevichThe Jazłowiecks
Marian Marek Bilewicz, National Army soldier in Lviv, phe was a Gestapo executioner, participated in many bravado actions of the Iwowski AK, in 1944 arefitted by the NKVD and sentenced to 10 years in the camps. In the book "I came out of darkness" he tells about war experiences and spending time in Stalinsk labour camps.
This memory I dedicate to all those who failed to last the 2 places of demolition of human lives, which I inactive remember - the prison on Łącki Street in Lviv and the squad of labour camps in Workuta
I was in a German prison. It was January 1942. The intent of holding thousands of people in prison was to get information from an interesting German occupier. Both sides and the executioner and the torturer realized that for the future destiny of the victim, it did not substance the least to what information the tortured shred of man would bring out of himself. He no longer exists in the registry of the living. He can't aid himself, he can only drag others, his loved ones, his friends, and even others who are totally outside. That's what the occupier meant.
(...) For respective weeks I had a 40-year-old Jew, a well-known prewar Lviv jeweler. He had nothing on his conscience but the fact that he was Jewish, but, as it turned out during the investigation, he gave the amount of gold, silver, platinum to the Germans seemed besides tiny to them. This man was tortured in an highly cruel way. Stripped naked, they tied their legs and hands to a thick and long stick whose ends were leaned on 2 desks or chairs, so that the prisoner hung his head down and his genitals up. A testicle beat. 1 night, after further interrogations, he cut his veins. (I came out of darkness, 1941-1948).
In the prison at Łącki Street (100% of the crew of this prison during both the russian and German occupations were Ukrainians) now houses the Museum of Martyrdom and Martyrology of the Ukrainian people. At the entrance the inscription that it is simply a place of remembrance of the martyrdom of Ukrainians who suffered during the business of these lands by Poland from 1918 to 1939.
We will not support Ukraine in any substance internationally until the government in Kiev restores the rights of the Hungarian number in Zakarpacie," said president Viktor Orban.
When the president of the Republic and the ruling parties in Poland put the condition of Ukraine, demanding that it cease not only the plunder of the Polish economy but besides the centuries-old past of the Republic of Poland? In possession of Polish cultural heritage of Poland on the lands taken Her treaty of enemies is already.
At the beginning of the school year, the Mukachev advanced School authorities in Zakarpacie banned singing the Hungarian national anthem and wearing Hungarian national colors at school events. Ukrainians have been harassing Hungarian schools for years, wanting to turn them into Ukrainian schools, and if it doesn't work, they want to close them," said the Hungarian Prime Minister during a speech in parliament.
The same applies to the Polish minority, attempts to show Polishness meet with intimidation of both lay and clergy. On May 2, 2023 (Polish Flag Day) the flag was to be issued in front of the office of the Polish company in Ukraine. I wonder why many Polish organizations and foundations held from the Polish taxpayer's money do not vote on this matter.
Marian Bilewicz released after a year from the prison at £ącki (settled in it for sabotage at the German file factory, bought for money) and sworn in in the AK participated in the fighting of the Forest Branch of the 14th Jazlów Regiment:
Many words were utilized to evidence in memory of posterity, sacrifice, the experience of a Polish soldier. No written past mentions the act of a soldier of the 14th Uwan Regiment in forest troops. Nobody mentioned how they fought in the woods, in the villages and towns. They fought day and night, without respite, without combat surms, the flutter of banners, without support of artillery and aviation. Meanwhile, the fact that the partisan troops were deployed along the eastbound road by Lviv was part of a thoughtful and high-level staff plan. We prevented the retreating German army from spreading its troops throughout the occupied area around the city.
... The German army was followed by the sound of the iron army. Lions occupied by Russians. Later accidents were like an avalanche. On 31 July 1944, 20 elder officers of the Home Army were arrested at a briefing at Kochanowskiego Street. In the days of subsequent arrests, they occurred massively. People were individually caught in their homes, in the streets, in workplaces. They came after me in the night: We accuse you of belonging to an illegal fascist military organization that was formed armedly against russian power. (I came out of darkness, 1941-1948).
It has been 80 years and the prosecution is inactive in force today, fashionable among any publicists, award-winning writers and filmmakers.
It may be worth to mention another passage from Marian Bilewicz's memory:
A 100 and 10 days of guerrilla epopei cannot be signed on respective pages of the book, this requires a separate study. Doesn't it require a separate improvement of an eleven-year-old Czech linker who has carried hundreds of soldiers through the forest, at any time risking her life... Of course, her actions could be put on the line of childish indifference yet, but she was full aware of what, why, and why she was doing. On the occasion of the continuous hikes on the route, the town - village, could save a severely sick parent from starving death, bringing any food from the village.
Can we not item the character Lusik closer? - a hebrew who, though comparatively safe, was hiding in the city, but who 1 day disgusted life behind a closet or a basement. He didn't want to live on his knees any longer - he preferred to hazard death, but with his forehead up - standing. He shook something hard on a German soldier's head, took his weapon and ran off into the woods. He was wandering like hell at first. Hunger, filth, scarcity, loneliness. He came across the right people - they helped, they directed us. This judaic boy paid the Germans cruelly for the harm and humiliation suffered. The courage, the unusual contempt for death, the incredible cleverness of life make the “Lusika” an highly colorful, fixable figure, if not a golden note, it is at least the author's pen.
And the French? Lieutenant Emil? After a bravado escape from camp close Rawa Ruska made contact with the AK, he was sent to the guerrillas. He's a weapons drop specialist from Brindisi.
These are just a fewer examples, due to the fact that where there are inactive silent heroes - the Peasants Battalions led by the Chief of the Noble Biłta, where paratroopers - radiotelegraphists Kuryłowicz and Donska, where the number 1 character, the commander-in-chief - “Dare”, where tens and hundreds of these Pomianists, Comics, Greys, Corabians, Blacks, Tombs, Felks and another nobles, who without a calling card, without coercion carried their young lives of the Homeland.
I can't fit all this in this paper. (I came out of darkness, 1941-1948).
I hope they have a place in the recently opened Museum of past of Poland [photo]. For Poles, for our exterminated elite, whose courage in defence of the interest and the state was deprived.
Oh, my God.
