2017-03-01 15:56 update: 2018-09-26, 23:54
Willno, 29.10.2012. Cmentarz Na Rossie Archiwum, Fot. PAP/Wojciech Pacewicz
Representatives of the Polish Embassy in Lithuania and the local Polish community on Wednesday laid flowers on the grave of Lieut. Sergiusz Zyndram-Koscialkowski, nom de guerre "Fakir", the last Polish soldier to be buried in Vilnius' Rossa cemetery.
Zyndram-Koscialkowski was killed in a skirmish with the Soviet NKVD near the village of Raubiszki on February 4, 1945. During World War II he was a member of the Polish underground Home Army (AK) executive in Vilnius.
A series of events commemorating the Enduring Soldiers in Vilnius began last Thursday with a screening of The Story of Roj, a film inspired by Mieczyslaw Dziemieszkiewicz (1925-1951), nom de guerre "Roj", an anti-communist activist of the Polish underground in northern Masovia.
On Sunday some 400 people took part in the local Wolf Trail Run honouring the memory of the Enduring Soldiers.
March 1 is Enduring Soldiers National Remembrance Day, established by the Polish parliament in 2011.
The Enduring Soldiers were underground organisations fighting against the communist regime, which seized power in 1944, after World War II. They fought with Soviet-imposed rule well into the 1950s. The last pro-independence fighter, Jozef Franczak nom de guerre "Lalek", perished in an ambush as late as 1963. (PAP)
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