Henryk Toruńczyk
Col. Henryk Torunczyk, born in Włocławek, was a Polish soldier. He later volunteered to fight with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He was sometime commander of the Naftali Botwin Company; Chief of Staff of XIII International Brigade and leader of an International Unit formed in January 1939 from a rump of Brigade veterans who remained in Spain after demoblisation. They crossed the border in Spain on about 9 January 1939 He later became a partisan. From 1943 he was instrumental in forming the Samodzielny Batalion Szturmowy. In 1945 he was briefly commanding officer of the Polish Internal Security Corps.
He is also called: Henrik Torunczyk and Henrik Tourunczyk.
Awards and decorations
- Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st Class
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd Class
- Gold Cross of Virtuti Militari
- Partisan Cross
- Medal "For Your Freedom and Ours"
- Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class