Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski
Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski | |
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Warsaw Cross of the Uprising |
Zbigniew Dionizy Ścibor-Rylski (10 March 1917 – 3 August 2018)
Ścibor-Rylski retired with the rank of
Biography
Childhood and youth
Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski was born at the height of
In 1918, a year after the outbreak of the
It was in Zwierzyniec that Ścibor-Rylski spend his remaining childhood years, until 1935. He attended the all-male
World War II
During the Invasion of Poland by Nazi German troops (September 1939), Ścibor-Rylski served in the 1st Aviation Regiment: on September 6, he left Warsaw in the squadron of Major Władysław Prohazko. Initially on trucks, and then on foot, the group broke through German lines and retreated to the east. They took part in other clashes, rallying with the Independent Operational Group Polesie, under the command of Brigadier General Franciszek Kleeberg. After the capitulation of Kock, he attempted to break through to Romania, but he was captured in the village called Krzywda. After an escape from the prisoner-of-war camp, Ścibor-Rylski returned to Warsaw and joined the underground resistance movement, where he was introduced by his former commander Prohazko. He was sworn into the movement in September 1940, receiving the nom de guerre Stanislaw. From 1940 to June 1943, he worked in pharmaceutical company, Przemyslowo-Handlowe Zaklady Chemiczne Ludwik Spiess i Syn Spólka Akcyjna (the present-day Polfa factories). In parallel, from 1941, he was a partisan fighter behind the Eastern Front, in Kovel.[2]
Beginning January 1944, Ścibor-Rylski was engaged in fighting alongside
At the end of the war Major Ścibor-Rylski, by then also known under the code name Motyl ("Butterfly"), was in Łowicz. Following the German capitulation of April, he reported to Lieutenant Colonel Jan Mazurkiewicz that he had decided to terminate his activity with the resistance movement and return to civilian life in Poznań.[2]
Post-war period
After the war and during the early years of the
As member of the Association of the 27 Volhynian Infantry Division and the Kleeberg Association of Independent Operational Group Polesie, he also belonged to the initiative group of the creation of the
Collaboration with communists
According to documents gathered by the
Private life
Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski had three sisters: Kalina, Ewa, Danuta. He was married to Zofia Kochanska (also known as Marie Springer ace of Polish underground intelligence. Located the battleship Tirpitz (Operation Catechism), escaped from the Gestapo while 8 months pregnant).
Ranks
- Lieutenant – September 4, 1939
- First lieutenant – 1943
- Captain– August 28, 1944
- Major – October 2, 1944
- Colonel in reserve – after the war
- Brigadier generalin reserve – May 7, 2005
Awards and distinctions
- Virtuti Militari, Silver Cross (twice)
- Polonia Restituta, Commander's Cross with Star[14]
- Cross of Valour (Poland), twice
- Partisan Cross
- Warsaw Uprising Cross
- Pro Patria Medal[15]
- Augustus Ferdinand Wollf Medal – the highest award of Warsaw Medical Association, presented to Ścibor-Rylski by Association President Jerzy Jurkiewicz
- Honorary Citizen of the City of Warsaw[16]
See also
References
- ^ Pietrzak, oprac. Karolina (3 August 2018). "Gen. Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski nie żyje. Miał 101 lat". wiadomosci.wp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g (in Polish) Biography of Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylsk, at the Memorial Association of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising; retrieved June 14, 2010
- ^ herbu Ostoja
- ISBN 978-83-240-7840-0.
- ^ Warsaw Uprising Museum; retrieved June 14, 2010
- Sejm of the Republic of Poland; retrieved June 14, 2010
- ^ "TRAGICZNE – Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski współpracownik UB od 1947 roku | Blogmedia24". blogmedia24.pl. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "Ważne pytania w sprawie generała Zbigniewa Ścibora-Rylskiego, po jego sensacyjnej deklaracji, że to on wyciągał informacje z UB". wpolityce.pl. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "Tochman: Kilka, może kilkanaście procent żołnierzy AK i NSZ współpracowało z UB i SB". www.fronda.pl. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "Instytut Pamięci Narodowej | Marek Lachowicz, Wspomnienia cichociemnego". ipn.gov.pl. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "Generał Scibór- Rylski przyznaje się do współpracy z SB i przekonuje, że wyciągał informacje od esbeków". Retrieved 2017-08-01.
- ^ Monitor Polski, Issue 27/2010, pos. 251 – point 1
- ^ (in Polish) List of veterans decorated by the President, at the Polish Presidency official site, September 2, 2009; retrieved June 14, 2010
- ^ Monitor Polski, Issue 31/1999, item 481 – point 1
- ^ "Uroczystość wręczenia odznaczeń w Pałacu na Wodzie w warszawskich Łazienkach - Urząd do Spraw Kombatantów i Osób Represjonowanych". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ^ (in Polish) "Protokół Uroczystej sesji Rady m. st. Warszawy z okazji Dnia Pamięci Warszawy odbytej w dniu 31 lipca 2008 r. na Zamku Królewskim w Warszawie", in Warsaw's Public Information Bulletin of the Capital City of Warsaw, July 31, 2008