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    ZAWILEŃSKI MARIAN

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    CANADA

    Born: July 25th, 1917 in Kołacz (pow. Mińsk Mazowiecki, woj. mazowieckie, Poland)

    Died: ?, Canada

    Military Rank: private

    Little is known about Zawileński but we know he was born in Kołacz (Poland), town at this time was occupied by Germany from 1915 to 1918. Prior to the Second World War, he worked as a farmer. Upon enlistment, he became part of the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division as part of the Second Polish Corps. After the war, like many other Poles, he stayed in England. He served in Polish Resettlement Corps organized by British authorities for Polish soldiers and he was honorably discharge from Polish Army on 1st October 1948 in Witley Camp, UK. Later he worked as a builder and general labourer. Zawileński immigrated to Canada from Great Britain by going to the Quebec port on May 28th, 1955. It is unknown when he died and what he did in Canada.

    author : Robert Stanczyk

    source : archives of Orliński Museum, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

    Ticket of Marian Zawileński to Canada, 1955; source: Marian Zawileński collection, Orlinski Museum, Canada
    Polish Resettlement Corps’ Discharge Certificate of Marian Zawileński, Witley Camp 1948; source: Marian Zawileński collection, Orlinski Museum, Canada
    Marian Zawileński, Great Britain (?), 40’s; source: Marian Zawileński collection, Orlinski Museum, Canada
    Marian Zawileński with a friend in Polish 2 Corps; source: Marian Zawileński collection, Orlinski Museum, Canada

    ABOUT THE PROJECT

    “Polish 2nd Corps Virtual Museum” is a long-term project, initiated in 2021 on the initiative of the World Polonia Council (Rada Polonii Świata) and Mrs. Teresa Berezowska from Canada, implemented in partnership with the Polska360 Foundation from Warsaw, which since 2015 has been implementing a number of projects documenting the fate of the soldiers of the 2nd Corps ( including a project of biographical interviews with soldiers of the 2nd Corps from Poland and Great Britain, 2016-2017, the exhibition “Ruins at the Monte Cassino – the fate of the Kresowiaks – soldiers of the 2nd Corps” – financed by the Office for Veterans and Victims of Oppression; caring for 2 Corps combatants in Poland or permanent cooperation from 2017 with the Association of Former Soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces in the West “Carpathians” from Warsaw). Read more...

    O PROJEKCIE

    “Wirtualne Muzeum 2 Korpusu” jest projektem wieloletnim, zainicjowanym w 2021 r. z inicjatywy Rady Polonii Świata i Pani Teresy Berezowskiej z Kanady, realizowanym w partnerstwie z Fundacją Polska360 z Warszawy, która od 2015 r. realizuje szereg projektów dokumentujących losy żołnierzy 2 Korpusu (m.in. projekt notacji biograficznych z żołnierzami 2 Korpusu z Polski i Wielkiej Brytanii, 2016-2017, wystawa “Gruzy na szczycie – losy Kresowiaków – żołnierzy 2 Korpusu” – ze środków Urzędu do Spraw Kombatantów i Osób Represjonowanych; sprawowanie opieki nad kombatantami 2 Korpusu czy stała współpraca od 2017 r. ze Stowarzyszeniem Byłych Żołnierzy Polskich Sił Zbrojnych na Zachodzie “Karpatczycy” z Warszawy). Czytaj dalej...

    PARTNERZY

    The project is financed by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Republic of Poland as part of the Polonia and Poles Abroad 2022 competition.
    The publication only expresses the views of the author(s) and cannot be equated with the official position of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland.

    Projekt finansowany ze środków Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów w ramach konkursu „Polonia i Polacy za Granicą 2022”.
    Publikacja wyraża jedynie poglądy autora/ów i nie może być utożsamiana z oficjalnym stanowiskiem Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów.

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