Wiktor Gilewicz

Piotr Gilewicz was arrested by the NKVD at the beginning of the WW2, straight after the Red Army invaded Poland, and he died on the way to Siberia in 1939.

[1] Wiktor graduated the Infantry Officers School (Szkoła Podchorążych Piechoty) in Komorowo near Ostrów Mazowiecka in August 1930.

He fought during the September Campaign in the 22 Infantry Regiment within the "Pomorze” Army and, after injuring his leg in the Kampinos Forest, was taken prisoner.

After the arrest he stayed in the Polish Red Cross hospital in Smolna Street, and was released in late November/early December following an application from his wife so that he could see his new born son.

[5] In May 1944, as a commanding communication officer in "Jesion" region, he was responsible for the location and safety of transmitting of a radio station for three days in the villages of Niwka and Skórzec near Siedlce.

A single letter reached his family in Poland, dated 4 March 1946, sent from camp Bolszaja Inta in Kozhvinski Rayon, Komi ASSR.

According to the information of Polish Red Cross received on in 1960 (and later confirmed in 1993 from the "Memorial” society), he died on 10 November 1948 in Kozhva – one of the work camps near a town of Pechora.