- Stanisław Jankowski
:"This article is about a Polish soldier, resistance member and architect. For a Polish politician and resistance member, see
Jan Stanisław Jankowski ."Stanisław Jankowski (1911-2002) was a Polish officer and architect.Student and assistant lecturer in architecture at the
Warsaw University of Technology , Jankowski was mobilized as an officer duringGerman invasion of Poland in 1939. He escaped after having been captured by theSoviet Union forces and joined thePolish Armed Forces in the West . He became a commando (Cichociemny ) and in 1942 was parachuted intooccupied Poland , where he became an expert document forger (codename "Agaton") for the Polish resistance. In 1944 he took part in theWarsaw Uprising (member of theBatalion Pięść inZgrupowanie Radosław ), taken prisoner by the Germans after its end, he became an aide-de-camp of the commander of the also internedArmia Krajowa leader, generalTadeusz Bór-Komorowski .After the war he resumed his career as an
architect . He took part in the reconstruction ofWarsaw ; many of his projects have taken him abroad (toIraq ,Peru ,Yugoslavia orVietnam ).Recipient of many medals and awards, military and civilian.
Further reading
*Stanisław Jankowski (1980). Z fałszywym Ausweisem w prawdziwej Warszawie: Wspomnienia 1939-1946. Warszawa: Biblioteka Syrenki (memoires)
External links
*pl icon [http://powstanie-warszawskie-1944.ac.pl/biog_jankowski.htm Stanisław Jankowski "Agaton"]
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