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World War Two began with the German invasion of Poland, the first country to resist Hitler. The Germans
invaded Poland from the south, west and north on September 1, 1939. The Red Army of the Soviet Union invaded from the east
on September 17, 1939.
Some 331,000 Polish soldiers of various faiths and ethnicities were casualties on the fronts of World War
Two (not counting the Resistance). Of that total, about 129,000 were killed in action.
Approximately 6 million Poles perished during the war. More than 2.8 million were taken to Germany
to work as slaves for the 3rd Reich while approximately 2.5 million were forcibly resettled by the Germans and a further 2.2
million were deported by the Soviets into the depths of the Soviet Union. (It is also worth remembering that the Soviet lords
occupying Poland following the war together with their Polish Communist allies continued to deport Poles to Siberia up until
the late 1950s.)
The list contained on this web site has been taken directly from the multi-volume work "Ksiega Pochowanych Zolnierzy
Polskich Poleglych w II Wojnie Swiatowej." ("Book of Buried Polish Soldiers, Killed in Action During WW2"). In this
case specifically we have made use of "Tom 1: Zolnierze Wrzesnia." (Vol. 1: The Soldiers of the September Campaign").
This first volume in the series was published in 1993 by Ajaks Publishing in Pruszkow, Poland. A tremendous amount
of work went into preparing these volumes and we must all thank the many who undertook this project and saw it to its completion.
The basic work of compiling the names for the list was carried out by Barbara Affek-Bujalska, Ludwik Glowacki,
Leszek Lewandowicz and Edward Pawlowski.
The members of the Editorial Committee were: Barbara Affek-Bujalska, Stanislaw Broniewski ("Orsza"), Czeslaw
Grzelak, Henryk Jedrzejewski, Bronislaw Komorowski, Kazimierz Madej, Zbigniew Markert, Piotr Matusak, Slawomir Najnigier,
Janusz Odziemkowski, Tadeusz Panecki, Edward Pawlowski (Committee Chair), Andrzej Przewoznik, Bohdan Rymaszewski, Zbigniew
Rydzicki, Waldemar Strzalkowski, Jerzy Slaski, Zbigniew Swiecicki, Wieslaw Wysocki.
Introduction and Education Editor: prof. dr. hab. Edward Pawlowski.
Editor: Witold Stecki
Technical Editor: Teresa Wlodarczyk
Corrections: Danuta Aftyka, Jan Aftyka, Jolanta Bugaj, Zenaida Kielak, Miroslawa Lenart
The book was made possible by the following organizations:
Rada Ochrony Pamieci Walk i Meczenstwa, Ministerstwo Gospodarki Przestrzennej i
Budownictwa, Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej, Urzad do Spraw Kombatantow i Osob Reprejonowanych, Panstwowa
Sluzba Ochrony Zabytkow, Wojskowy Instytut Historyczny, Muzeum Wojska Polskiego, Instytut Historii Wyzszej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej
w Siedlach and Fundacja Ochrony Zabytkow.
Doubtless there have been many additions, deletions,
changes and corrections made since 1993. The list presented here cannot be considered 100% accurate nor can it be
considered complete.
NOTES:
1) The lists are divided into two compartments, soldiers whose place of burial is known and soldiers whose
place of burial is unknown.
2) The soldiers are listed by surname in alphabetical order, using the Polish alphabet, although this
website does not use Polish characters. So if, for example, you are searching for a surname beginning with the letter
``L`` there will be two consecutive lists, one beginning with the letter ``L`` followed by one beginning with the Polish letter
``ew`` or `L with a line through it.``
3) Examples of full data entries occur throughout the lists. A soldier`s data is given in this order: surname,
first name, date of birth, rank, unit, date of death, place of death, place of burial. If a particular piece of data
is unknown, it is simply left out.
4) Where two or more soldiers share the same surname and first name, an attempt is made to distinguish the
two apart using data that differs.
5) Once again, keep in mind that the lists are not necessarily fully accurate or complete but represent
the research accumulated up until 1993.
6) Possible errors made by the editors, where detected, appear in brackets.
7) The first page "Known Burial A-B" contains full names, i. e. surname and first name. On subsequent pages,
the common first names are abbreviated as follows:
Aleksander = Aleks
Alojzy = Alo
Andrzej = And
Antoni = Ant
Augustyn = Aug
Bazyli = Baz
Bernard = Bern
Bogdan = Bog
Bohdan = Boh
Boleslaw = Bol
Bronislaw = Bron
Brunon = Brun
Czeslaw = Cze
Edmund = Edm
Edward = Edw
Eugeniusz = Eug
Feliks = Fel
Franciszek = Fran
Hieronim = Hier
Hipolit = Hip
Izrael = Iz
Jakub = Jak
Jaroslaw = Jar
Jozef = Joz
Karol = Kar
Kazimierz = Kaz
Klemens = Klem
Ludwik = Lud
Maksymilian = Maks
Marian = Mar
Michal = Mich
Mieczyslaw = Miecz
Mikolaj = Mik
Mojzesz = Moj
Robert = Rob
Ryszard = Rysz
Szczepan = Szcz
Stanislaw = Stan
Stefan = Stef
Sylwester = Syl
teodor = Teo
Tomasz = Tom
Waclaw = Wac
Wasyl = Was
Wielsaw = Wies
Wiktor = Wik
Wilhelm = Wil
Wincenty = Win
Wladyslaw = Wlad
Wlodzimierz = Wlod
Zbigniew = Zbig
Zdzislaw = Zdz
Zygmunt = Zyg
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