On 12.05.2023 an different celebration took place in Łaskarzewo. A second ceremony Mass was held in the parish church and the burial to the grave of the late Captain Karol Jamnicki, the hero of the fight for Poland's independence.
Karol Jamnicki was connected with the land of grace – his household settled there, where he visited his boy Jerzy Jamnicki and his grandchildren. Thanks to the efforts of his great-grandsons his temporal remains rested at the parish cemetery in Łaskarzewo.
The inhabitants of Łaskarzew had already been able to learn about the past of Karol Jamnicki thanks to the publication of the City of Łaskarzew from 2021 entitled “Grateful Heroes of the 100th Anniversary of the conflict of Warsaw”.
Karol Jamnicki was born on 20 October 1895 in Lubaczów, where he attended a 7-class school, which he graduated in 1909. In the same year, he began teaching at a teacher's vocational school. He besides took up work in the local sawmill (initially as a disciple), and joined the squad “Bartosz” at Hawko, where training was organized by his colleague Stanisław Dąbek (later general).
In February 1914, after his change of ownership, he lost his occupation for political reasons. As war broke out, he decided to join the army. He most likely went to the East Legion. After the formation of Jamnicki together with legionaries centered around captains Józef Haller and Jan Kozicki, he moved to the established 3rd Polish Legion Infantry Regiment.
In 1915, Karol Jamnicki was injured. He went to Bavaria where he started work at a brewery in Friedberg. He worked there until January 1916. He waited for a minute to put on his Polish uniform again and go to the front. After the wound was released, he received a call to the military commission and then went to the 13th Light Artillery Regiment. Along with this regiment, he fought on the Russian Front until June 11, 1916, erstwhile he was wounded again, then went to the infirmary in Ostrava, where he arrived until December 1916.
In January 1917 he was sent to the Italian front, to the 204th dense Artillery Regiment, where he stayed until September 1918. Then, released for a four-week leave deserts and does not return to the unit. He joins a secret Polish organization operating in Lubaczów, Jarosław, Czyzanów and Oleszyce districts. He hides in the woods from the military police until November 8. On 9-10 November, he joins the recently formed Polish unit, which begins to disarm the posts of the Austro-Hungarian Gendarmerie. A week later, Charles leaves for the recently formed artillery battery in Jarosław.
It fights the Ukrainians from Sanu through Rawa Ruska, Bełz, Sokal, Sad Vishnia to Chyrów until January 1919. Karol Jamnicki, proceeding about the outbreak of an uprising against Germans in Wielkopolska, goes there. It arrived on 4 January 1919. As a volunteer he fights for cities like Leszno, Inowrocław, Iława. erstwhile the 1st Artillery Regiment is formed in Poznań in March, Charles joins him and is assigned to the 2nd Battery, where Lieutenant Rosada is commander and then Lieutenant White.
With this regiment, he re-enters the east Front and fights the Ukrainians at Lviv, Boryslaw and Drohobych. At the end of the fighting, it is thrown to the northern front, where it reflects Minsk and the area into the Berezin River at the hands of Bolsheviks. In December 1919, he was sent to a 4-month French equipment training course. In March 1920, he finished his course and advanced to fire champion. It then feeds the ranks of the recently formed Wielkopolska unit, receives allocation to the 4th Dyon 14th PAL. Again sent to fight the Bolsheviks their unit incarnate to 9. The Brigade, where General Baranowski is in charge.
Karol Jamnicki in the uniform of the Wielkopolska insurgent. 1919.In the summer, under the Bolshevik pressure, the unit withdraws through Oswiec, Radziłów, Jedwabno, Lomża, Dawns, Ostrów Mazowiecki, Ostrołęka, Różana, Pulatusk, Nasielsk to Modlin. Then, after breaking the Bolshevik offensive, he again pursues them in pursuit by Zambrów, Falcons, Białystok, Grodno and further east. Contrary to popular belief, the Red Army was not completely destroyed in the conflict of Warsaw. The anticipation of reopening offensive activities inactive had troops of the Western Front of Gen. Tuchaczewski. The strike was scheduled for September 25, but the Bolshevik movement preceded the Polish operation, present called the German operation. On September 20, a major attack on Grodno began.
Firefighter Karol Jamnicki went to Major Bernard Mond's ward, whose actions were of large importance for fighting for the city. On the night of 25 to 26 September, the group attacked 2 regiments of Cossacks. From the request to give Jamnick to the Knights' Cross, it can be concluded that it was at that time awarded with exceptional courage:
Fireman Jamnicki Karol voluntarily along with Lieutenant Mroczko is heading towards where the fight against the hard-boiling boots has already full developed. Despite the strongest enemy fire comes and reports where the most endangered points are and thus allows purposeful and effective beginning of fire from 2 batteries, thus contributing to resisting enemy attack.
The Soviets left Grodno that same night. The conflict of Niemne is besides fierce buoys under Wołkówski and Lida, whose business closed the retreat of the 3rd Army and practically ended the full operation. Historians have no doubt: the large conflict over Germany was the most crucial after the conflict of Warsaw against the Bolsheviks.
After fighting in Grodno, Karol Jamnicki headed for Central Lithuania. He participated in General Lucjan Żeligowski's Vilenizhna occupation. He was awarded the Cross of Central Lithuania. He then went to advanced Silesia and fought in the 3rd Silesian Uprising. After the fighting ended, he and his squadron set off for Starogard, Pomerania, where 30 .Artillery Regiments began at the beginning of 1921. In June 1921, Charles and any of the officers and enlisted officers were seconded to Vilnius to the 2nd Lithuanian-Belarusian Division.
In 1922, the Jamnicki Regiment was renamed the 29th PAL and moved to Grodna. In February 1923, Charles was sent to the Central School of Artillery in Toruń, in November after finishing his course he returned to Grodna. In December, he became an instructor, and then head of the school of the reserve subjects in Vilnius, where he worked until July 1927. On his own request, after the school was disbanded, he returned to Grodna.
A year after Poland regained its independency in 1919 he married Anna from Siercza close Wieliczka. 2 of their children were born there: Marysia and Charles Jr. It can be assumed that the wife and children were not enjoying the presence of their husband and father at home very long. Only after Charles was in Grodno, where he brought his family. In 1930 he was presented to the Cross of Merit, which application was signed by General Kleeberg himself.
Karol Jamnicki (second row, second from right) while serving in Grodno. 1939.In January 1933 he was assigned to the 29th PAL in Grodno to be the commander of the administrative platoon. In January 1939 he was transferred to command of the squadron reconnaissance.
The defensive war Karol Jamnicki ended as a political prisoner of the NKVD. He was starving and tortured. During the Nazi-Stalin invasion his wife besides died. During the bombing, she and her children fled to the neighboring village. erstwhile the attack stopped, she went home to choice up her things, leaving the children with her friends. At that moment, a bomb fell on the house. Anna died at the scene, under the rubble of the building. So far, her burial site has not been found.
During the years of the war, while Charles was in NKVD prison, the care of the children was given to strangers, and the custody of younger siblings was taken over by Maria's eldest daughter. Karol Jamnick managed to escape after the Germans bombed Grodno prison in June 1941. most likely had it not been for the bombing, he would have been shot by the Soviets, who were thus destroying witnesses to their crimes. A large number of officers in this prison were not as fortunate as Karol Jamnicki. Even before the bombardment, the prisoners were killed massively by shooting and even throwing grenades in their cells.
When the guards escaped Karol Jamnicki to barefoot, the highly exhausted escaped with the prisoners. Captured by the Niecmów, he went to Stalag IA Stablack POW camp in East Prussia. He escaped from it to join a guerrilla operating in the area of Rawa Ruska in 1943. He most likely owned the nickname ‘Jur’. In 1944 he went to the 4th Reserve Infantry Regiment in Białystok. There, after verifying the degree and skills as an instructor, he was transferred to a specialised school-supply unit: the 21st Reserve Artillery Regiment.
From November 1944 until the end of April, he trained further enlistment contingents and enlisted officers for artillery units. He was described as an excellent instructor. Although the age of 49-50 was a prerequisite for leaving it in a spare-school unit, due to the very advanced losses in the ranks of the 2nd Army of the WP in the Lusatia operation, all available reserves were sent between 30 April and 4 May to supplement the units and reconstruct them as specified combat efficiency.
Karol Jamnicki was besides included in this large group of additions. He landed in the Elbe area where he took up a vacant battery commander position on 2 or 3 May 1945 in 1 of the 7th BAH regiments. His combat way ended on 9-11 May in the Czech Republic. Then after converting 7 BAH into the 70th Haubic Artillery Regiment, he served in it until demobilization.
Karol Jamnicki as a prisoner of the NKVD (1939-1941).After the war, Charles settled in Lower Silesia in Mirsk. That's where he started his conspiracy. He was under reflection of the territory Public safety Office from Lviv. The environment and individual of Karol Jamnicki were very closely observed, especially after 1953 in connection with the case of the alleged “Gajosz band” and the investigation of Karol Zyga and the attack on the PSS cashier in Mirsk.
His individual rekindled interest in UB in 1962 when, as president of the ZSL wheel in Mirsk, he criticized the communist system. safety most likely got this information from 1 of the Mirski secret associates.
In the 1950s, his daughter and boy were wrongly arrested. He himself faced difficulties with his anti-communist views. He didn't agree to the rules of the day. He was taken distant from the land and home and was assigned a small, crumbling home with wasteland in the wilderness.
He spent the last years of his life in poverty. He worked in the wellness hotel of Świeradów Zdrój as a porter. For the remainder of his life he had to hide his past connected with the Polish-Bolshevik War and all subsequent fates. He died in 1976 in Mirsk.
The grave of Karol Jamnicki in the cemetery in Łaskarzewo.We besides recommend: Scandal manipulation of PAP. Changed Ukrainians to Germans
