The remains Brigadier General Emil August “Nil” Fieldorf, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Home Army will soon be exhumed for reburial (photo – symbolic grave of Fieldorf in Warsaw).

The exact place of his remains after he was executed by the Communist government after WW II has never, until now, been known.

A historian from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has found a document which will help to establish where Fieldorf, murdered by the communist security services, was buried.  

During World War II Emil August Fieldorf, under the nom de guerre “Nil” commanded the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), resistance organization operating in Poland during Nazi occupation. In 1944 he was nominated to command a unit which was supposed to resist any future communist government imposed on Poland by the Soviets.

In 1945 Fieldorf was arrested by the Soviet secret police (NKVD) and sent to a labour camp for two years. In 1948 the Polish communist government offered an amnesty to former fighters who were still loyal to the London-based government-in-exile. Fieldorf revealed himself to the authorities, not knowing that the amnesty was a sham. He was promptly arrested and imprisoned in Warsaw.  

Fieldorf refused to collaborate with the communist security services and was falsely accused of having supported fascists during World War II and having ordered the execution of Soviet partisans. He was sentenced to death and hung on 24 February 1953.  

His body was buried in an unknown location and a symbolic grave to him was erected in the Warsaw Powazki cemetery. The documents found by IPN suggest that his real burial place is in the same graveyard, not far from his symbolic grave. (mg/pg)

The exact place of his remains after he was executed by the Communist government after WW II has never, until now, been known.

A historian from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has found a document which will help to establish where Fieldorf, murdered by the communist security services, was buried.  

During World War II Emil August Fieldorf, under the nom de guerre “Nil” commanded the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), resistance organization operating in Poland during Nazi occupation. In 1944 he was nominated to command a unit which was supposed to resist any future communist government imposed on Poland by the Soviets.

In 1945 Fieldorf was arrested by the Soviet secret police (NKVD) and sent to a labour camp for two years. In 1948 the Polish communist government offered an amnesty to former fighters who were still loyal to the London-based government-in-exile. Fieldorf revealed himself to the authorities, not knowing that the amnesty was a sham. He was promptly arrested and imprisoned in Warsaw.  

Fieldorf refused to collaborate with the communist security services and was falsely accused of having supported fascists during World War II and having ordered the execution of Soviet partisans. He was sentenced to death and hung on 24 February 1953.  

His body was buried in an unknown location and a symbolic grave to him was erected in the Warsaw Powazki cemetery. The documents found by IPN suggest that his real burial place is in the same graveyard, not far from his symbolic grave. (mg/pg)