Henryk Toruńczyk
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Col. Henryk Torunczyk, born Wloclawek, (1909-1966) was a Polish soldier. He later volunteered to fight with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He was sometime commander of the Naftali Botwin Company; Chief of Staff[1] of XIII International Brigade and leader of an International Unit[2] formed in January 1939 from a rump of Brigade veterans who remained in Spain after demoblisation.[3]. They crossed the border in Spain on about 9th January 1939[4] He later became a partisan[5].
He is also called: Henrik Torunczyk and Henrik Tourunczyk.
[edit] See also
- Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War, 4th Rev. Ed. 2001.
- Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain, 2007.
- Cecil Eby, Comrades and Commissars, 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ (Spanish) Order of Battle site
- ^ "A ghost brigade ... [it] soon fell apart" Eby, Comrades and Commissars, p 415.
- ^ Thomas, The Spanish Civil War, p 855
- ^ Beevor, The Spanish Civil War, p855.
- ^ AJEX: Jews in the Spanish Civil War
