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[TWO biographies]. Biographical material of the two Goc brothers, Casimir, fallen at Monte Cassino,...

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[TWO biographies]. Biographical materials of two Goc brothers, Kazimierz, who was killed at Monte Cassino, and Mieczyslaw, a soldier of the Home Army, later a functionary of the Municipal Militia, from the vicinity of Bochnia and Cracow from the war and post-war years.
From the documents in the collection (ID cards, certificates, testimonials, clippings) emerges a picture - very different - of the lives of the two brothers during and after the war. They came from Lomna near Bochnia, and both underwent military training in the Second Republic. Their fates, gleaned from the materials offered here, are briefly presented below.
Kazimierz - born in 1914; in September 1939 he served in the KOP in northeastern Poland, where he was taken prisoner by the Russians. Through Murmansk, the Kola peninsula and Arkhangelsk he ended up in the Buzuluk region, where he joined the ranks of the Andres army. With it, he walked the Middle East route reaching Italy. He took part, as a soldier of the 13th Rifle Battalion, in the first assault on the monastery hill of Monte Cassino. His comrade-in-arms recalled: "After running the first dozen steps in the attack on the German bunker, with a flamethrower on his back, he was literally cut in half by a machine gun series. Such was the heroic death of the late Kazimierz Goc, for Poland, Wisnicz and his beloved Lomna." After the battle, in the absence of data, he was declared missing. He was decorated in absentia with the Star for the 1939-45 War and the Star of Italy, as well as the Commemorative Badge of the 5th Border Infantry Division. A small picture with an image of St. Anthony of Padua and a handwritten note on the back remains: "Memento! The late Goc Kazimierz, who fell in the battle of Monte Cassino on 12 .V. 1944 r.". Kazimierz Goc was declared dead in the 1950s.
Mieczyslaw - born in 1912.Before the war he took part in peasant strikes and in an armed action against the State Police in 1937.He did his military service in the 40th pp. During the defensive war he fought near Pszczyna, Kutno and Warsaw, after which he was taken prisoner by the Russians near Lviv for several weeks (he himself wrote about German captivity), from where he escaped. He became involved in underground activity in the ranks of the Bochnia AK, where he became a platoon commander and deputy commander of the "Sum" post. He carried the pseudonym "Cuckoo." He took part in the liberation of political prisoners in Wiśnicz Nowy. In 1944, during one of the actions, he was wounded. After the end of hostilities, he laid down his arms and, according to one certificate, "did not participate in the underground after the liquidation of the Home Army on February 15, 1945." Instead, he applied to join the Citizen's Militia, which he was drafted into on 21 I 1945, his 33rd birthday. For more than a year he was commander of the Wiśnicz Nowy police station. As an MO officer, he was awarded the Cross of Valor. His service in the People's Militia is confirmed by a certificate specifying that he "took part in the consolidation of people's power," as well as a medal awarded by the State Council in 1985 "For participation in the struggle in defense of people's power." Having left the service, he became commune secretary of the PPS, and after the unification congress became a member of the PZPR. He received second-level party training. He joined the ZBOWiD, where he was active. In V 1952 he settled in Nowa Huta and worked at the Housing Construction Combine. He died in 1992, and his newspaper obituary bids farewell to a soldier of the Home Army. Mieczyslaw Goc did not mention this episode of his life either in his 1956 handwritten curriculum vitae or in his 1964 personal questionnaire (although he noted it in his 1947 personal records sheet).
The part pertaining to Kazimierz includes, among others: two badge cards, five photographs (two from Iraq), an official letter from 1951 from the British Ministry of War requesting information on whether Kazimierz Goc, missing after the battle, is alive (English text, Polish translation on the back), the picture mentioned above, three pieces of a memoir article about Kazimierz from an unidentified local magazine.
The section pertaining to Mieczyslaw includes, among others: two documents from his service in the Home Army, one of which promotes platoon sergeant "Kukułka" to the rank of sergeant res. (with the signature of Wojciech Wajda alias "Odwet"), a pre-war map of the Bochnia and Nowy Wiśnicz area on a scale of 1:75.000, a permit to carry weapons for an MO officer (Russian translation on the back) dated March 1945, a letter informing of promotion to the rank of MO sergeant "on the 1st anniversary of the existence of the Citizen's Militia" dated 1945, a verification certificate dated 1947, a personnel record sheet dated 1947, two 50 zloty "We are building a common house" bricks for the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) dated 1948, two ex. of a 1956 handwritten curriculum vitae, a 1964 personal questionnaire, numerous state decoration cards from 1947-1989, including the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, thirteen medals and decorations, two military booklets, two ZBOWiD identity cards, PPS and PZPR identity cards, 21 photos, including one large-format photo, in uniform, and a press obituary.
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