Mieczysław Smorawiński
Mieczysław Smorawiński | |
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| Born | December 25, 1893 Kalisz, Russian Empire (now Poland) |
| Died | 1940 Katyn, Soviet Union (now Smolensk Oblast, Russia) |
| Allegiance | Poland |
| Years of service | 1914 - 1940 |
| Rank | Generał brygady |
| Commands | 6th Infantry Division |
| Battles / wars | Great War, Polish-Ukrainian War, Polish-Bolshevik War, Invasion of Poland (1939) |
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Brigadier General Mieczysław Makary Smorawiński (1893–1940), was a Polish military commander and officer of the Polish Army. He was one of the Polish generals identified by forensic scientists of the Katyn Commission as the victim of the Soviet Katyn massacre of 1940.
Mieczysław Makary Smorawiński was born December 25, 1893, in Kalisz, then in Russian Empire. There he graduated from a local primary school and then a Russian language trade school. Early in his youth he joined the Zarzewie resistance organization and became one of its leaders in Kalisz. Denunciated, in 1911 he was arrested and sentenced to 6 months in prison in Ekaterinoslav (modern Dnipro in Ukraine). After finishing his term he emigrated to Lwów (modern Lviv) in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, where in 1912 he passed his matura exam and joined the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lwów School of Technology. There he also joined the Drużyny Strzeleckie organization, in which he received basic military training.