Henryk Toruńczyk

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 [ [http://www.ogqn.com/odb_gce/epr/brigadas/xiii_bi.htm es icon Order of Battle site] ] of XIII International Brigade and leader of an "International Unit" ["A ghost brigade ... [it] soon fell apart" Eby, "Comrades and Commissars", p 415.] formed in January 1939 from a rump of Brigade veterans who remained in Spain after demoblisation. [Thomas, "The Spanish Civil War", p 855] . They crossed the border in Spain on about 9th January 1939 [Beevor, "The Spanish Civil War", p855.] He later became a partisan [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/spanjews.pdf AJEX: Jews in the Spanish Civil War] ] . Since 1943 he was surveyor of forming with NKVD aid Szamodzielny Batalion Szturmowy [ Ryszard Terlecki, Miecz i tarcza komunizmu. Historia aparatu bezpieczeństwa w Polsce 1944-1990, Kraków 2007, s. 10. ]

He is also called: Henrik Torunczyk and Henrik Tourunczyk.

ee also

*Hugh Thomas, "The Spanish Civil War", 4th Rev. Ed. 2001.
*Antony Beevor, "The Battle for Spain", 2007.
*Cecil Eby, "Comrades and Commissars", 2007.

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