The Independence Underground in the Podbeskidzie Region in the Years 1939-1947

The publication comprises materials from a scientific session organized by the Branch Public Education Office in Katowice and the City Office in Bielsko Biała in October 2002. The issues concerning the independence underground in the Podbeskidzie region in the years 1939-1947 needed both streamlining and a fundamental research and examination.Contents

• German Authorities vis-à-vis the Independence Underground in the Podbeskidzie Region in the Years 1939-1947 by Ryszard Kaczmarek;
• The Cieszynsko-Podhalanski Region of the National Alliance and the National Military Organisation in the years 1939-1947 by Mieczyslaw Starczewski;
• The Activities of the Home Army Partisan Unit “Wedrowiec” (“Wanderer”) in the Years 1942-1945 in Light of Personal Reports and Memories by Tomasz Miler;
• Partisanship or Banditism? The Activities of the Armed Units in the Provinces of: Bielsko, Zywiec and Cieszyn on the Basis of Daily Reports by German Gendarmes from January to December 1944. A Statistical Approach Attempt by Bartlomiej Warzecha;
• The Activities of the Independence Underground in Bielsko-Biala and Vicinity in the Years 1945-1947. An Outline of the Issue by Jerzy Polak;
• The Court Suits of the Armed Underground Soldiers in the Podbeskidzie Region in the Regional Military Court in Katowice in the Years 1946-1947 by Tomasz Kurpierz;
• Information about the Conduct of Investigations by the Institute of National Remembrance – Branch Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Katowice in the Cases concerning the Communist Crimes against Members of the Independence Underground in the Podbeskidzie Region by Przemyslaw Piatek;
• Places of Burial of Stalinist Repressions’ Victims in the Podbeskidzie Region – Information on the State of the Affairs by Aleksandra Namyslo.