Franciszek Błażej

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Captain Franciszek Błażej (noms de guerre "Roman", "Bogusław") was born on 27 October 1907 in Nosówka, in Austrian Galicia. He was a professional officer of the Polish Army and participated in the Polish September Campaign. Some time in the early 1940s, he joined the Rzeszów division of the Union for Armed Struggle (later the Home Army).

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In 1945, he became a member of the Rzeszów division of the anti-Communist organization, Freedom and Independence (WiN). He was editor-in-chief of the WiN magazine "White Eagle" and, between December 1946 and fall 1947, Błażej was the director of the Southern Department of WiN. Captured by the Ministry of Public Security in November 1947 in Kraków, he was beaten and tortured in the Mokotów Prison for so long that his body started to rot and gangrene set in.

In October 1950, Błażej was sentenced to death. He was executed with a shot to the head on 1 March 1951 and his body was buried in an unknown location.

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20110724160700/http://www.rzeszow.uw.gov.pl/main.php?muid=3&mid=127&akID=5022&cid=809070c69fd2cd36
https://web.archive.org/web/20070903190036/http://www.powstanie-warszawskie-1944.ac.pl/zw_win.htm
http://www.projectinposterum.org/docs/chodakiewicz3.htm
(in English) WiN | Freedom and Independence - A Historical Brief part 3 by Dr. Janusz Marek Kurtyka, Ph.D., Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, IPN, Poland.

Home Army (Armia Krajowa)

Main articles: Polish resistance movement in World War II; Polish Underground State

v t e Operations
Uprisings and battles	Warsaw Uprising Zamość uprising Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Lwów uprising Murowana Oszmianka Osuchy Ostra Brama Tempest
Underground, field, and espionage	Arsenal Heads Kutschera Project Big Ben Bürkl Most III Operation Belt V-1 and V-2 Wieniec
Propaganda	Biuletyn Informacyjny Operation N Operation Antyk
Directorates	Civil Resistance Covert Resistance Underground Resistance
Political	Republic of Pińczów

v t e Personnel, emblems and decorations
Commanders	Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski Stefan Rowecki Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Leopold Okulicki
Senior officers and prominent members	J. Aleksandrowicz J.Arkusz K. K. Baczyński W. Bartoszewski J. Batory R. Białous S. Bittner F. Błażej A. Bohdziewicz J. Bokszczanin S. Braun T. Gajcy H. Lederman S. Jankowski S. Karpiel K. Kierzkowski B. Kostrzewska H. Krahelska A. Krzyżanowski L. Kulej J. J. Lerski J. Mazurkiewicz W. Micuta K. Moczarski A. Nadolski T. Pełczyński A. Pilch W. Pilecki R. Reiff Z. Romanowiczowa Z. Rumel J. Rutkowski D. Smoleński A. Stelmachowski R. Syski J. Szczepański Z. Szendzielarz A. Szklarski H. Szwarc E. Umińska J. Zabłocki A. Zakrzewska W. Zalewski J. Zamoyski T. Zawadzki T. Żenczykowski M. Żuławski T. Żychiewicz
Membership lists	Armia Krajowa members Warsaw Uprising insurgents
Emblems and decorations	Armia Krajowa Cross Kotwica Krzyż Powstania Warszawskiego

v t e Units, affiliates, and predecessors
Headquarters and Directorates	Information and Propaganda Kedyw Civil Resistance Covert Resistance Underground Resistance
Combat units	2nd Legions Infantry Division 27th Volhynian Division 104th Company of Syndicalists Battalion Parasol Battalion Zośka Żaglowiec Group Żbik Group Żmija Group Żniwiarz Group Żyrafa Group
Warsaw commands	I Śródmieście Żoliborz III Wola IV Ochota V Mokotów VI Praga VII Warsaw suburbs
Other	Błyskawica radiostation Little Andrews (Jędrusie) Underground Police (PKB) Secret Military Printing Works (TWZW) Silent Unseen (Cichociemni) Wachlarz
Predecessors	Service for Poland's Victory (SZP) Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ)
Affiliates	Peasants' Battalions (BCh) Confederation of the Nation (KN) Leśni (Forest Soldiers) National Military Association (NOW) (split) National Armed Forces (NSZ-AK) (faction) Camp of Fighting Poland (OPW) Grey Ranks (Szare Szeregi - Boy Scouts) Secret Polish Army (TAP) Socialist Party People's Guard (GL-WRN) Union of Retaliation (ZO)
Successors	Independence (NIE) Freedom and Independence (WiN)

v t e Opponents and rivals
Opponents	Nazi Germany Ukrainian Insurgent Army Ukrainian Auxiliary Police Lithuanian Security Police Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force
Rivals	AL Armia Ludowa (People's Army) Soviet partisans

Related articles: The Holocaust in Poland; Warsaw Uprising; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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