User:Walkerfun/Bogdan Krutowicz

Bogdan Józef Krutowicz (born February 28, 1927 in Warsaw, died November 11, 2011 in Wołomin) - pseudonym "Piorun", soldier of the Freedom and Independence organization, political prisoner of the Stalinist period. Son of Wincenty Krotewicz aka Krutowicz and Zofia Rybicka.

During the German occupation, he lived with his parents in Warsaw and Rembertów. In August 1943, he was deported to the territory of the Third Reich as a forced laborer. He worked in Dresden at Bünaustrasse 34, in the Franz Simon machine factory, existing since 1900, producing ship fittings, later mainly dishwashers and washing machines for commercial use and for use by the army.

After escaping from Dresden to Warsaw in October 1943, he was arrested in Rembertów by the Gestapo and stayed in the following order:


 * Central Detention Center in Warsaw (November 1943)
 * Radogoszcz (transit camp) (November 1943)
 * Concentration Camp in Działdowo (Soldau) (December 1943)
 * Radogoszcz (transit camp) (from December 1943 to February 1944)

In February 1944 he was sent from the camp in Radogoszcz to Dresden, where he again worked in the Franz Simon factory until February 1945. After the bombing of Dresden by British and American air forces, on February 13 and 14, 1945, he left the destroyed city and reached Munich via Salzburg. After surrendering the city, he crossed the western front line.

After the end of World War II, in July 1945, he returned to Warsaw. In the summer of 1946, he left for the Lublin region and joined the Freedom and Independence organization operating in the forests of Biłgoraj and Zamość. He was a private soldier with the pseudonym "Piorun" ("Thunderbolt") in the 2nd platoon commanded by Leonard Kowalczyk, pseudonym "Kawka", commander of the village of Kawęczyn in the Szczebrzeszyn region.

In 1947, together with Wiktor Plura, he organized in Pieszyce the "Black Death" group operating within the anti-communist underground. Over time, this group, consisting of 6 people, expanded its activity to Wrocław. The commander was Wiktor Plura, deputy Henryk Krzycki.

He was arrested on December 19, 1947 in Dzierżoniów in Lower Silesia by officers of the Security Office. On February 7, 1948, after a one-day trial, he was sentenced to death by the Military District Court in Wrocław under the chairmanship of Zygmunt Bukowiński (by the decision of President Bolesław Bierut of March 30, 1948, he was sentenced to life imprisonment). After a month of detention in Wrocław, he was taken to the prison in Rawicz. On March 17, 1955, after 7 years in prison in Rawicz, he was acquitted and released.

He was a member of the Union of Political Prisoners Sentenced to Death during the Communist Regime. On November 10, 1994, by the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.