Jan Karcz
- Birth Date:
- 16.10.1892
- Death date:
- 25.01.1943
- Length of life:
- 50
- Days since birth:
- 48066
- Years since birth:
- 131
- Days since death:
- 29704
- Years since death:
- 81
- Extra names:
- Jan Karcz
- Categories:
- Officer, Victim of nazism, WWI participant, WWII participant
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Jan Karcz (16 October 1892, in Modlica near Kraków – 25 January 1943, in Auschwitz) was a Polish Army Colonel, posthumously promoted to the rank of a Brigadier General.
During the Second World War he was held and murdered in the Birkenau concentration camp, of Nazi Germany.
Awards
- Virtuti Militari, Silver Medal
- Cross of Valour, four times
- Polonia Restituta, Officer Cross
- Cross of Merit, Golden Cross
- Order of the Star of Romania, Officer Cross
- Latvian Commemorative Medal
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01.09.1939 | Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War (Polish: Kampania wrześniowa or Wojna obronna 1939 roku) in Poland and the Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiß (Case White) in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Russian and Japanese hostilities (Nomonhan incident) in the east on 16 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.