Wiesław Chrzanowski

Wiesław Chrzanowski was born on December 4, 1920 in Sosnowiec, Poland.

He graduated from Warsaw's Joachim Lelewel Middle School and the Reserve Engineer Officer Cadet Training School in Modlin, which he finished in the Rank of 2nd Lieutenant, Sapper.

In September 1939, he fought in the defense of the Modlin Fortress.

He joined the National Military Organisation (NOW) in 1940, and later – beginning in 1943 – he became active in the Home Army in the "Aniela" Company of the NOW-AK "Antoni" Battalion.

He conducted training courses for the underground Infantry Reserve Officer Cadet Training School.

During the German Occupation, he studied at the two-year State Technical College, i.e. the Occupation equivalent of the Warsaw University of Technology, completing the Pre-War Polytechnic Curriculum at Underground Classes at the same time.

 During the Warsaw Uprising, he served as the Commander of 2 Platoon, "Anna" Company of the "Gustaw" Battalion - first in the Old Town, and later, after evacuating through the sewers, in City Centre North.

 After the fall of the Uprising, he was held in POW Camps in Fallingbostel Stalag XI B, Bergen-Belsen Oflag XI B/Z, Grossborn Oflag II D, Sandbostel Stalag X B and Lübeck Oflag X C.

While imprisoned Wieslaw kept his strength up by thinking of his Girlfriend, Halina Boryczkówna,  who was imprisoned by the Germans in the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

They survived and lived in Warsaw after WW2.

He returned to Poland in November 1947 after graduating from the Munich Technical University (TUM).

He worked for Silesian Steel Mills in Chorzów and Ursus Mechanical Works in Warsaw, and lectured at the Warsaw University of Technology.

Wiesław Chrzanowski lived in Warsaw and died on Easter Sunday April 24, 2011.