Mieczysław Kawalec
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Mieczyslaw Kawalec (noms de guerre “Iza”, “Zbik”, "Psarski", "Stanislawski”), born 1916 in the village of Trzciana near Rzeszow was a Polish resistance fighter. In late 1930s he graduated from Law Department at the Lwow University and took the job of an assistant there. During Polish September Campaign, he fought in the defence of Lwow, and in 1940 he joined Rzeszow District of Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej (later Home Army).
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Since 1945 he was commandant of Rzeszow District of the anti-Communist organization Wolnosc i Niezawislosc (WiN). Later Kawalec moved to Krakow, joining the Department of Information and Propaganda of the 4th Headquarters of WiN, under Lukasz Cieplinski and Adam Lazarowicz. Due to betrayal, he was arrested on February 1, 1948 in Poronin and moved to the Mokotow Prison in Warsaw. Tortured during investigation, in October 1950 he was sentenced to four consecutive deaths. Kawalec was killed by a shot in the head on March 1, 1951, his body was buried in unknown location.
