Tadeusz Zawadzki
- Birth Date:
- 24.01.1921
- Death date:
- 20.08.1943
- Length of life:
- 22
- Days since birth:
- 37712
- Years since birth:
- 103
- Days since death:
- 29469
- Years since death:
- 80
- Extra names:
- Tadeusz Zawadzki, Kajman, Kotwicki, Lech Pomarańczowy, Tadeusz, Zośka
- Categories:
- Officer, Scout, Victim of nazism, WWII participant
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery
Tadeusz Zawadzki codename: Zośka, Kajman, Kotwicki, Lech Pomarańczowy, Tadeusz (born January 24, 1921, Warsaw, Poland — died August 20, 1943, Sieczychy, near Wyszków, Poland) was a Polish Scoutmaster (harcmistrz), Polish scouting resistance activist and second lieutenant of the Armia Krajowa during the Second World War. He is a main character in Kamienie na szaniec, a book by Aleksander Kamiński, describing "Operation Arsenal" in Warsaw, as well as Barbara Wachowicz's Rudy, Alek, Zośka. Zawadzki himself commanded the Operation Arsenal, a daring action of the Polish resistance, which took place in Warsaw on March 26, 1943, and which resulted in freeing Zawadzki's former high school classmate, Jan Bytnar.
Death
He died, aged 22, during the so-called "Taśma" action, an attack on a Grenzschutzpolizei building in Sieczychy, near Wyszków, during the night of 20 August and 21 August 1943. Soon after his death, Batalion Zośka (a Scouting battalion of the Home Army) was created and named after Zawadzki's codename.
Awards
- Cross of Valour (Krzyż Walecznych) twice
- Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari
Source: wikipedia.org
No places
Relations
| Relation name | Relation type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Józef Zawadzki | Father | |
| 2 |  | Anna Zawadzka | Sister |
26.03.1943 | Operation Arsenal
19.05.1943 | odbicie więźniów pod Celestynowem
W nocy z 19 na 20 maja 1943 (w obecności kpt. "Mietka" - Mieczysława Kurkowskiego, ówczesnego bezpośredniego zwierzchnika OS "Jerzy" w Kedywie KG AK, który czuwał nad przebiegiem akcji, stanowiącej dla "Zośki" egzamin oficerski)