Father of the Polish general, communist and martial law ruler Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923-2014) (see http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=41&GSmcid=46785965&GRid=130338513& ).
Wladyslaw Mieczyslaw Jaruzelski was a small nobleman (szlachcic) from Podlasie region. His father had been deported to Siberia following the 1863 uprising (more details about his descent on http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~apszczol/jaruzel.htm ). Apart from a period of conflict with his father-in-law, Hipolyt Zaremba, provoking a move to Kurów near Lublin (where his son Wojciech was born in 1923), W. Jaruzelski lived near Wysokie near Bialystok. A patriot and fighter against the Bolsheviks in 1920.
When Poland was invaded by Germans and Soviets in 1939, the family fled to Lithuania. When the Red Army came to Lithuania, the family was deported to Russia. Deportation to Siberia or Kazakhstan, including forced labour, was the destiny of hundreds of thousands of Polish families, especially of gentry and upper class background. To a certain extent comparably to the Nazi invaders, the Stalinist occupants wanted to decimate the Polish élite.
Under miserable circumstances and with scarce medical care, Wladyslaw Jaruzelski died at Bijsk, Altai region, Sibiria (not far from the Mongolian border), as related by his son in the book "my life for Poland".
The Wysokie estate of the family had been destroyed by a Wehrmacht attack and was expropriated after 1945 by the Polish communist régime.
His son Wojciech enlisted into Polish forces on USSR ground in the fight against the Nazi invaders, i.a. taking part in the Lenino and Berlin battles. Returning to Poland towards the end of WW II, he aligned with the new rulers, making a fast career in the communist army. As he describes in his memoirs, he participated in campaigns against the non-communist underground (Swietokrzyskie mountains) and the Ukrainian minority (South-East Poland). In the 1960's as chief of staff, he was i.a. a protagonist of the heinous cleansing of the Polish army from Jewish officers (1968 campaign provoked by Moczar, of whom he was best man for his second marriage - a fact studiously omitted in his autobiographic publications). Nominated minister of defence during the same year, he was co-responsible for the invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1981, Wojciech Jaruzelski organised the crackdown on Solidarnosc, causing hundreds of victims.
As from 1989, Wojciech Jaruzelski had a partially positive role in the handover of power to democratically elected governments.
In 2004, for the first time since the War, he could visit his father's tomb, an event largely covered by the press, cf. http://www.geocities.com/wojciech_jaruzelski/syberia.html
Wladyslaw Mieczyslaw Jaruzelski was a small nobleman (szlachcic) from Podlasie region. His father had been deported to Siberia following the 1863 uprising (more details about his descent on http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~apszczol/jaruzel.htm ). Apart from a period of conflict with his father-in-law, Hipolyt Zaremba, provoking a move to Kurów near Lublin (where his son Wojciech was born in 1923), W. Jaruzelski lived near Wysokie near Bialystok. A patriot and fighter against the Bolsheviks in 1920.
When Poland was invaded by Germans and Soviets in 1939, the family fled to Lithuania. When the Red Army came to Lithuania, the family was deported to Russia. Deportation to Siberia or Kazakhstan, including forced labour, was the destiny of hundreds of thousands of Polish families, especially of gentry and upper class background. To a certain extent comparably to the Nazi invaders, the Stalinist occupants wanted to decimate the Polish élite.
Under miserable circumstances and with scarce medical care, Wladyslaw Jaruzelski died at Bijsk, Altai region, Sibiria (not far from the Mongolian border), as related by his son in the book "my life for Poland".
The Wysokie estate of the family had been destroyed by a Wehrmacht attack and was expropriated after 1945 by the Polish communist régime.
His son Wojciech enlisted into Polish forces on USSR ground in the fight against the Nazi invaders, i.a. taking part in the Lenino and Berlin battles. Returning to Poland towards the end of WW II, he aligned with the new rulers, making a fast career in the communist army. As he describes in his memoirs, he participated in campaigns against the non-communist underground (Swietokrzyskie mountains) and the Ukrainian minority (South-East Poland). In the 1960's as chief of staff, he was i.a. a protagonist of the heinous cleansing of the Polish army from Jewish officers (1968 campaign provoked by Moczar, of whom he was best man for his second marriage - a fact studiously omitted in his autobiographic publications). Nominated minister of defence during the same year, he was co-responsible for the invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1981, Wojciech Jaruzelski organised the crackdown on Solidarnosc, causing hundreds of victims.
As from 1989, Wojciech Jaruzelski had a partially positive role in the handover of power to democratically elected governments.
In 2004, for the first time since the War, he could visit his father's tomb, an event largely covered by the press, cf. http://www.geocities.com/wojciech_jaruzelski/syberia.html
Father of the Polish general, communist and martial law ruler Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923-2014) (see http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=41&GSmcid=46785965&GRid=130338513& ).
Wladyslaw Mieczyslaw Jaruzelski was a small nobleman (szlachcic) from Podlasie region. His father had been deported to Siberia following the 1863 uprising (more details about his descent on http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~apszczol/jaruzel.htm ). Apart from a period of conflict with his father-in-law, Hipolyt Zaremba, provoking a move to Kurów near Lublin (where his son Wojciech was born in 1923), W. Jaruzelski lived near Wysokie near Bialystok. A patriot and fighter against the Bolsheviks in 1920.
When Poland was invaded by Germans and Soviets in 1939, the family fled to Lithuania. When the Red Army came to Lithuania, the family was deported to Russia. Deportation to Siberia or Kazakhstan, including forced labour, was the destiny of hundreds of thousands of Polish families, especially of gentry and upper class background. To a certain extent comparably to the Nazi invaders, the Stalinist occupants wanted to decimate the Polish élite.
Under miserable circumstances and with scarce medical care, Wladyslaw Jaruzelski died at Bijsk, Altai region, Sibiria (not far from the Mongolian border), as related by his son in the book "my life for Poland".
The Wysokie estate of the family had been destroyed by a Wehrmacht attack and was expropriated after 1945 by the Polish communist régime.
His son Wojciech enlisted into Polish forces on USSR ground in the fight against the Nazi invaders, i.a. taking part in the Lenino and Berlin battles. Returning to Poland towards the end of WW II, he aligned with the new rulers, making a fast career in the communist army. As he describes in his memoirs, he participated in campaigns against the non-communist underground (Swietokrzyskie mountains) and the Ukrainian minority (South-East Poland). In the 1960's as chief of staff, he was i.a. a protagonist of the heinous cleansing of the Polish army from Jewish officers (1968 campaign provoked by Moczar, of whom he was best man for his second marriage - a fact studiously omitted in his autobiographic publications). Nominated minister of defence during the same year, he was co-responsible for the invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1981, Wojciech Jaruzelski organised the crackdown on Solidarnosc, causing hundreds of victims.
As from 1989, Wojciech Jaruzelski had a partially positive role in the handover of power to democratically elected governments.
In 2004, for the first time since the War, he could visit his father's tomb, an event largely covered by the press, cf. http://www.geocities.com/wojciech_jaruzelski/syberia.html
Wladyslaw Mieczyslaw Jaruzelski was a small nobleman (szlachcic) from Podlasie region. His father had been deported to Siberia following the 1863 uprising (more details about his descent on http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~apszczol/jaruzel.htm ). Apart from a period of conflict with his father-in-law, Hipolyt Zaremba, provoking a move to Kurów near Lublin (where his son Wojciech was born in 1923), W. Jaruzelski lived near Wysokie near Bialystok. A patriot and fighter against the Bolsheviks in 1920.
When Poland was invaded by Germans and Soviets in 1939, the family fled to Lithuania. When the Red Army came to Lithuania, the family was deported to Russia. Deportation to Siberia or Kazakhstan, including forced labour, was the destiny of hundreds of thousands of Polish families, especially of gentry and upper class background. To a certain extent comparably to the Nazi invaders, the Stalinist occupants wanted to decimate the Polish élite.
Under miserable circumstances and with scarce medical care, Wladyslaw Jaruzelski died at Bijsk, Altai region, Sibiria (not far from the Mongolian border), as related by his son in the book "my life for Poland".
The Wysokie estate of the family had been destroyed by a Wehrmacht attack and was expropriated after 1945 by the Polish communist régime.
His son Wojciech enlisted into Polish forces on USSR ground in the fight against the Nazi invaders, i.a. taking part in the Lenino and Berlin battles. Returning to Poland towards the end of WW II, he aligned with the new rulers, making a fast career in the communist army. As he describes in his memoirs, he participated in campaigns against the non-communist underground (Swietokrzyskie mountains) and the Ukrainian minority (South-East Poland). In the 1960's as chief of staff, he was i.a. a protagonist of the heinous cleansing of the Polish army from Jewish officers (1968 campaign provoked by Moczar, of whom he was best man for his second marriage - a fact studiously omitted in his autobiographic publications). Nominated minister of defence during the same year, he was co-responsible for the invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1981, Wojciech Jaruzelski organised the crackdown on Solidarnosc, causing hundreds of victims.
As from 1989, Wojciech Jaruzelski had a partially positive role in the handover of power to democratically elected governments.
In 2004, for the first time since the War, he could visit his father's tomb, an event largely covered by the press, cf. http://www.geocities.com/wojciech_jaruzelski/syberia.html
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