Skeletal remains of 8 falleArchaeologists have unearthed the remains after a year of intense search efforts and 75 years after the soldiers were killed. According to Poland’s Insтιтute of National Remembrance (IPN), the soldiers were likely part of a partisan group known as Warta. The soldiers were found in a mass burial pit hidden on the grounds of St Martin’s parish cemetery in Odolanow, southwest Poland.
IPN said: “On that day, the ‘Błysk’ unit seized Odolanow.
“In the town, the Citizen’s Militia post was disarmed, the town hall was occupied and the municipal funds were distributed among locals at a rally organised on the town’s square.
“During the retreat, near Odolanow, an hour-and-a-half-long skirmish took place between the unit and the NKVD/Internal Security Corps/Security service group following them, which had twice the numeral advantage.”
The partisan group was broken up and, according to some accounts, up to 24 soldiers were killed.
The group’s wounded commander Lieutenant Jan Kempinski, whose alias was Błysk or
