Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Biali_Kurierzy> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 29 of
29
with 100 items per page.
- Biali_Kurierzy abstract "White Couriers (Polish: Biali Kurierzy) was a group of around 20-30 Polish boyscouts and former soldiers of the Polish Army, most of whom had been associated with the interbellum sports club Junak Drohobycz. It existed between October 1939 and July 1940, when it was broken by the Soviet NKVD. The task of the White Couriers was to smuggle people from Soviet-occupied southeastern part of the Second Polish Republic, to the Hungarian province of Carpathian Ruthenia and further to Budapest. The White Couriers were part of the Grey Ranks (Polish: Szare Szeregi), a wartime codename for the underground Polish Scouting Association Following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, eastern Poland, known as Kresy, was annexed by the Soviet Union, allied with Nazi Germany. The Soviets immediately began campaign of a large-scale mass terror, with hundreds of thousands of people deported to Siberia. The terror was mostly aimed at Polish members of upper classes, policemen, civil servants, soldiers and Intelligentsia, as well as Ukrainian nationalists. Creation of the White Couriers was directly connected with the Soviet terror, as hundreds of people, mostly from the city of Lwow, decided to escape Soviet Union across the Soviet-Hungarian border in Eastern Carpathians, which had been established as a result of Soviet and Nazi aggression of Poland. The Couriers were mostly young men in their 20s or even teens, members of the prewar Polish Scouting Association and athletes of the Junak Drohobycz sports club. They knew the landscape very well and within 10 months they managed to smuggle an unknown number of persons. On their way back from Hungary, they took money, Polish-language newspapers published in the West as well as orders of the Government in exile. The group was subject to the Ewa department (an abbreviation of the word evacuation) of the Polish Embassy in Budapest and among others, was supported by Major Mieczyslaw Mlotek. The name came from a humorous dialog of Szczepcio and Tonco, popular Polish Radio Lwow characters of the Merry Lwow Wave. The couriers worked alone or in pairs. All had to be physically and emotionally strong, it was crucial for them to know the borderland area, guarded by the NKVD border troops. Altogether, there were up to 30 of them, only four survived World War II. Majority was captured and executed by the Soviet occupiers. One of the survivors, Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt, also known as Marek Celt, wrote a book White Couriers, in which he described their fate.".
- Biali_Kurierzy wikiPageExternalLink chciuk.html.
- Biali_Kurierzy wikiPageID "20170868".
- Biali_Kurierzy wikiPageRevisionID "567436126".
- Biali_Kurierzy hasPhotoCollection Biali_Kurierzy.
- Biali_Kurierzy subject Category:History_of_Lviv.
- Biali_Kurierzy subject Category:History_of_Poland_(1939–45).
- Biali_Kurierzy subject Category:Military_history_of_Poland_during_World_War_II.
- Biali_Kurierzy subject Category:Scouting_and_Guiding_in_Poland.
- Biali_Kurierzy type CausalAgent100007347.
- Biali_Kurierzy type LivingThing100004258.
- Biali_Kurierzy type Object100002684.
- Biali_Kurierzy type Organism100004475.
- Biali_Kurierzy type PeopleExecutedByTheSovietUnion.
- Biali_Kurierzy type Person100007846.
- Biali_Kurierzy type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Biali_Kurierzy type Whole100003553.
- Biali_Kurierzy type YagoLegalActor.
- Biali_Kurierzy type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Biali_Kurierzy comment "White Couriers (Polish: Biali Kurierzy) was a group of around 20-30 Polish boyscouts and former soldiers of the Polish Army, most of whom had been associated with the interbellum sports club Junak Drohobycz. It existed between October 1939 and July 1940, when it was broken by the Soviet NKVD. The task of the White Couriers was to smuggle people from Soviet-occupied southeastern part of the Second Polish Republic, to the Hungarian province of Carpathian Ruthenia and further to Budapest.".
- Biali_Kurierzy label "Biali Kurierzy".
- Biali_Kurierzy label "Biali Kurierzy".
- Biali_Kurierzy sameAs Biali_Kurierzy.
- Biali_Kurierzy sameAs m.04y8rwt.
- Biali_Kurierzy sameAs Q4902447.
- Biali_Kurierzy sameAs Q4902447.
- Biali_Kurierzy sameAs Biali_Kurierzy.
- Biali_Kurierzy wasDerivedFrom Biali_Kurierzy?oldid=567436126.
- Biali_Kurierzy isPrimaryTopicOf Biali_Kurierzy.