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357:, as a sign that the brigade's task was to bring justice to the killers. Wincenty Mroczkowski soon escaped from the Soviets and joined Szendzielarz's unit, he claimed that the Soviets had forced him to accept command of "Bartosz Głowacki" unit. He was soon caught communicating with the Soviets and shot while escaping.
332:"Twardowski," stayed in the ranks of the "Voroshilov" Brigade. The exact date and place of Antoni Burzyński and Sylwester Jachimiak deaths remain unknown. There are unconfirmed accounts that he was tortured and then shot after refusing to cooperate. Markov wrote in his report that he "wanted to avoid a second
184:, which he completed, obtaining the ranks of reserve officer cadet and platoon-leader with censure. He then attended the School of Political Science at the Scientific and Research Institute of Eastern Europe in Vilnius, from which he graduated in 1939. In 1938, he was promoted to second lieutenant.
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At the meeting with the command of the Soviet partisans with Burzyński were: 2nd Lt. J. Wiśniewski "Ostroga", 2nd Lt. Zygmunt Niciński "Twardowski" and
Sylwester Jachimiak "Chłop". Of this group, only "Ostroga" and "Twardowski" survived. "Ostroga" later claimed that he managed to escape.
324:. While the commanders were absent, the Soviet troops of Markov unit under a command of Senior Lt. Derkachev invaded the Polish camp, defeated and captured more than 200 Polish soldiers. About 80 soldiers from his unit were murdered near the village of
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Polish soldiers. The document, dated
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issued an order to combat Polish partisan units. Markov's unit was assigned to liquidate the Kmicic's unit. On August 26, 1943, Antoni Burzyński went with three his officers to a Soviet camp to discuss an action on
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railroad station on April 15, 1943, where railroad equipment was destroyed and weapons and ammunition were captured. Meanwhile, from the beginning of July 1943, the unit was authorized to officially act as the
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began the day before, he retreated towards
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also had their encampments in this area. Relations between Polish and Soviet partisans were relatively good until June 1943. At that time, the
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