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Janusz Wieluński 1924 - 1945 Edit

Born 2.4.1924 in Warszawa
Died 6.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Biography

Janusz Wieluński was born on 2 April 1924 in Warsaw. In 1944 he finished the State School of Civil and Water Engineering with the water engineering specialization (Staatliche Fachschule für Bauwesen, Abteilung für Wasserbau) in Warsaw under German occupation. He was an officer cadet of the underground Home Army (AK). After the fall of the Warsaw Uprising (1 August 1944 – 2 October 1944) he was deported to work in the weapons factory “Budioh”, Breslau-Schmiedefeld, Stargarderstrasse (currently Wrocław-Kuźniki in Poland). For some unknown reason, he was imprisoned in the KL Groß-Rosen camp (currently Rogoźnica in Poland) after Christmas 1944 or in early 1945. On 16 February 1945 he was transferred to KL Mauthausen as a political prisoner with the number P129550 where he was exterminated on 6 March 1945. He was the youngest of the siblings: Feliks (a soldier of the Warsaw Uprising), Jadwiga, Władysław (a soldier of the Warsaw Uprising and political prisoner in the KL Sachsenhausen camp with the number P95618 and in the KL Ravensbrück camp with the number P10699) and Stanisław (an officer cadet of the underground Home Army imprisoned by the Gestapo on 18 May 1943 in Pawiak in Warsaw and shot by the Germans on 29 May 1943) – all born of mother Anna and father Jan Wieluński, who was killed at the age of 69 on 2 August 1944 on the second day of the Warsaw Uprising.

Andrzej Wieluński, nephew (son of Władysław Wieluński)

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