WARSAW – Poland has unveiled a new monument honoring the hundreds of Polish resistance fighters who parachuted into their Nazi-occupied country to fight German forces during World War II.
The black granite monument contains the names and pseudonyms of all 316 “Dark and Silent” resistance fighters. They entered their country between February 1941 and December 1944 by parachuting from night flights that originated in Britain and Italy.
Trained in the West, they organized resistance and sabotage operations and brought messages and money from Poland’s London-based government-in-exile. Some died during the war, others during Poland’s subsequent communist regime.
Monday’s ceremony was overseen by President Bronislaw Komorowski and 99-year-old Brig. Gen. Stefan Baluk, the oldest living member of that resistance force.
A Polish girl scout lights a candle in front of the monument of Treblinka World War II-era Nazi death camp on October 2, 2013 in Treblinka. A monument honouring hundreds of Polish resistance fighters has been unveiled in Poland.
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