Warsaw Uprising insurgent dies, aged 94
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
18.04.2018 08:30
One of the last surviving insurgents in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, Stanisław Likiernik, died on Tuesday, said Emil Marat, his friend and the author of his biography.
Stanisław Likiernik. Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell.
Born in 1923, Likiernik was 16 years old at the start of WWII. He fought for Poland's underground Home Army during the war.
He notably took part in the Warsaw Uprising, a 63-day insurgency by Poles against the city's German occupiers which saw some 18,000 fighters and 200,000 civilians killed before it was put down by better equipped and more numerous German forces.
After the war, Likiernik moved to France and became a citizen of that country in 1957.
He was the recipient of a number of medals and orders, including the highest Polish military distinction – the Virtuti Militari cross.
He is to be buried alongside other Polish war heroes at Warsaw's Powązki military cemetery. (vb/pk)
Source: PAP, Polish Radio