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Henryk Toruńczyk

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Henryk Torunczyk

Col. Henryk Torunczyk, born in Włocławek, (1909–1966) was a Polish soldier. He later volunteered to fight with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He was sometime commander of the Naftali Botwin Company; Chief of Staff of XIII International Brigade and leader of an International Unit formed in January 1939 from a rump of Brigade veterans who remained in Spain after demoblisation. They crossed the border in Spain on about 9 January 1939 He later became a partisan. Since 1943 he was surveyor of forming Samodzielny Batalion Szturmowy.

He is also called: Henrik Torunczyk and Henrik Tourunczyk.

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Henryk Toruńczyk Wikipedia