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18.05.2021

Janina Sobiczewska née Borychowska has passed away

The funeral ceremony of the late Janina Sobiczewska will be held on Tuesday, 18 May 2021, at 12:40, at the Warsaw Bródno cemetery. It will be attended by the Deputy President of the Institute of National Remembrance, Krzysztof Szwagrzyk, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska's funeral; Warsaw 18 May 2021, Photo: Sławek Kasper
Janina Sobiczewska and Maria Kaczyńska

Janina Sobiczewska née Borychowska passed away at the age of 90. She was the eldest daughter of Marian Borychowski (murdered by the Security Services in February 1951 in Warsaw’s Mokotów prison), posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of Polonia Restituta in 2007.

Marian Borychowski aided the partisans of the Home Army's 6th Vilnius Brigade for many years.  After the Security Services liquidated Arkadiusz Czapski’s unit on Borychowski’s farm in September 1950, he was arrested and subjected to a cruel investigation in the detention center in Sokołów Podlaski, and later in the Mokotów prison in Warsaw. He was tortured to death there on 14 January 1951. His entire family was also arrested, and the family farm was confiscated. His wife Czesława was sentenced to 10 years in prison, his daughter Janina to 1.5 years and the three minor children were taken to orphanages.

On 30 September 1950, Janina Borychowska was arrested by the Security Services in Sokołów Podlaski for the alleged cooperation with the soldiers of the pro-independence underground (WiN), commanded by Józef Małczuk aka "Brzask". This unit was part of the 6th Vilnius Brigade of the Home Army. After several months of arrest and brutal investigation, on 17 January 1951, the Military District Court in Warsaw sentenced her to 1 year and 6 months in prison, suspended for 2 years.

"We will remember the late Janina as a good, kind woman, a patriot who always bore witness to the truth" – the IPN’s Deputy President Krzysztof Szwagrzyk said during the ceremony.

 

 

 


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