• Thumbnail for Jan Piwnik
    many smaller, pre-existing groups. His unit, based in the forests around Wykus, was named the Home Army Partisan Group "Ponury". One of the most successful...
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  • Thumbnail for Mausoleum of Polish Rural Martyrology in Michniów
    route led from his hometown Janowice through Nagorzyce, Michniów, hill of "Wykus", Rataje to the Cistercian monastery in Wąchock. Bishop Edward Materski...
    29 KB (2,952 words) - 03:45, 15 March 2024
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    Bodzentyn was an important center of anti-German resistance. The hill of Wykus, a few kilometers from the village, served as a forest camp of local Home...
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    time, "Ponury" organized a strong guerrilla unit in the forests around Wykus hill. At the beginning of summer of 1943, the Home Army units led by "Ponury"...
    76 KB (9,348 words) - 04:41, 7 March 2024