Stefan Lech Sokołowski

Stefan Lech Sokołowski Gozdawa coat of arms (25 May 1904 in Warsaw – spring 1940 in Katyń) was a Polish mathematician, climber and porucznik of artillery in Polish Land Forces. Lwów Eaglet (1919). Doctor of mathematical sciences. Victim of Katyn massacre.[1]

Stefan Lech Sokołowski
Born(1904-05-25)25 May 1904
Warsaw, Russian Empire
Diedspring 1940
Katyń, Soviet Union
Buried
Katyn war cemetery
AllegianceSecond Polish Republic
Service/branch Polish Land Forces
Years of service1919, 1933, 1939
Rankporucznik
Battles/warsBattle of Lemberg (1918–1919), Invasion of Poland

Life

Sokołowski was born 25 May 1904 in Warsaw in the family of Railway engineer and inventor, Witold Sokołowski Gozdawa coat of arms (1871–1944) and writer Anna Maria Sokołowska born Skarbek (1878–1972).[2][3][4][5] In 1912 with mother and sisters, he moved to Myślenice.[6] When he have less than fifteen years old, he fought in defense of Polish Lwów. After war he study mathematics at University of Warsaw. In the interwar period he works in Ballistic Research Center in Rembertów (pol. Centrum Badań Balistycznych w Rembertowie). He earned a PhD in mathematics. In 1933 he graduated from the School Reserve Officer Cadet Artillery in Włodzimierz. First January 1935 was promoted to podporucznik. In 1939, assigned to the staff of OK I.[1]

Spring of 1940, he was murdered by NKVD's functionaries in the Katyn forest.[1]

Awards
  • Silver Crosses of the Virtuti Militari (nr 14384) – collective posthumous honor of Polish soldiers murdered in Katyn and other unknown places of execution granted by the President of Poland in Exile Professor Stanisław Ostrowski (11 November 1976)
  • Cross of September Campaign 1939 – collective posthumous medal commemorative of all the victims of the Katyn massacre (1 January 1986)

Family

He had three sisters: Maria Danuta Żelazowska (died 1933), podpułkownik Grażyna Lipińska (1902–1995) and psychologist and a Home Army soldier, Stefania Żelazowska (1907–1992).[2][7]

In 1931 he married Cecylia (or Celina) Benisz. They had one daughter – Krystyna (born 1935).[1][2]

References
  1. Tarczyński, Marek; Kiński, Jan; Malanowska, Helena; Olech, Urszula; Ryżewski, Wacław; Snitko-Rzeszut, Janina; Żach, Teresa. "Księga Cmentarna Polskiego Cmentarza Wojennego w Katyniu (Eng: Cemetery Book of Polish War Cemetery in Katyn)" (PDF). Rada Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa (eng. Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  2. Stefan Lech Sokołowski h. Gozdawa w Wielkiej Genealogii Minakowskiego pol. [dostęp z dnia: 2016-07-23]
  3. Anna Maria Aurelia Skarbek w Wielkiej Genealogii Minakowskiego pol. [dostęp z dnia: 2016-07-23]
  4. Witold Sokołowski h. Gozdawa w Wielkiej Genealogii Minakowskiego pol. [dostęp z dnia: 2016-07-23]
  5. Anna Maria Aurelia Sokołowska iPSB pol. [dostęp z dnia: 2016-07-23]
  6. Grażyna Lipińska – życiorys str. 1 PDF pol. [dostęp z dnia: 2016-07-23]
  7. Anna Maria Aurelia Sokołowska iPSB pol. [dostęp z dnia: 2016-07-24]
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