Mieczysław Kawalec

Mieczysław Kawalec (noms de guerre "Iza", "Zbik", "Psarski", "Stanislawski"), born in 1916 in the village of Trzciana, Rzeszów County, was a Polish resistance fighter.

During the Polish September Campaign, he fought in the defence of Lwów, and in 1940 he joined the Rzeszów District of Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ) (later Armia Krajowa).

From 1945, he was the commander of the Rzeszów District of the anti-Communist organization, Freedom and Independence (WiN).

Later, Kawalec moved to Kraków, joining the Department of Information and Propaganda of the 4th Headquarters of WiN, under Łukasz Ciepliński and Adam Lazarowicz.

[2] Due to betrayal, he was arrested on 1 February 1948 in Poronin and transported to the Mokotów Prison in Warsaw.