Tumanowicz's ID card

From 1918, Lieutenant Colonel Walerian Tumanowicz was an officer of the permanent service of the Polish Army; took part in the Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Bolshevik War; in September 1939 he commanded the 1st Battalion of the 146th Infantry Regiment; from 1940 he was the organizer and first inspector of the Inspectorate of the Union of Armed Struggle of the Home Army Mielec; from February 1944 to July 1945, he was at the disposal of the Home Army District Headquarters, belonged to "Nie" and the Delegation of the Armed Forces; in 1945 he took over the management of Operation Z in the Southern Area of the Armed Forces Delegation; arrested on October 22, 1946 in Cracow, by the sentence of September 10, 1947 he was sentenced to death, loss of public rights and civic honorary rights, and forfeiture of property to the state treasury; executed on November 13, 1947 in prison; the remains of Lieutenant Colonel Walerian Tumanowicz have not been found so far. The symbolic grave of Walerian Tumanowicz was established at the Powązki Military Cemetery. 

"I am Armenian by blood, Polish by soul and beliefs... With my mother's milk, I sucked hatred towards the Soviet Union"- Walerian Tumanowicz's statement during the trial 

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Photo: Tobiasz Bulynko