Jan Piwnik
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Jan Piwnik was a Polish World War II soldier, a cichociemny and a notable leader of the Home Army in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. He used the nickname Ponury and Donat.
Jan Piwnik
AK soldiers Parasol Regiment Warsaw Uprising 1944
Wąchock
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Wąchock is a town in Starachowice County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland, near Starachowice, within the historical region of Lesser Poland. In 2006, it had 2,777 inhabitants.
Jan Piwnik
…part of the popular culture of the Świętokrzyskie area. In July 1988, his body was exhumed and transferred to a crypt in the Cistercian monastery in Wąchock. In November 1943, Piwnik married Emilia Malessa…
Romanesque monastery in Wąchock
Wąchock Abbey in the interwar period
Chapter house at the Cistercian abbey
The monument to the sołtys