POW Interned in Lithuania Kalvarija + hand drawing 1940

POW Interned in Lithuania Kalvarija + hand drawing 1940
As a result of the events in the September 1939 campaign, especially in connection with the Soviet aggression agreed with the Nazi Third Reich on September 17, 1939, a certain part of the Polish Army units operating in the eastern areas of the Second Polish Republic crossed the borders with the neutral neighboring Baltic countries, and their soldiers remained in accordance with international law internees.About 5,000 people were interned in Lithuania and imprisoned in four camps: in Wiłkomierz, in Fort V Kowieński, in Kalwaria near Vilnius and in WyłkowyszkiThe offered documents are a Lithuanian postcard sent from the internment camp in Kalwaria to Warsaw. An addition to the card is a cell drawn with a pencil with bunk beds and copy of photo from net. Drawing and card sent by Leon DzienniakLeon Dzienniak He was born on February 20, 1905 in Częstochowa. On June 19, 1923, he received his secondary school-leaving examination certificate at the H. Sienkiewicz in Częstochowa. At the beginning of the war, on September 3, 1939, he was mobilized as a second lieutenant in a military reserve in Vilnius. He spent the first days with the military unit in Sokółka in the backup center, then in Vilnius Az until the Soviet troops entered. On September 20, 1939, he was interned in Lithuania in the camps in Palanga and Kalwaria. From July 10, 1940, he was interned in the Kozelsk camp in the USSR. After signing the agreement between Sikorski and Stalin (August 29, 1941), he was sent to the camp in Tnotskoye, then to Jakkobag. This is how he got to the Polish army in the Middle East (August 15, 1942). Here he was incorporated into the 2nd Polish Corps. Here he became a liaison officer in the Command of the 6th Lviv Infantry Brigade (the commander of the brigade was Colonel Witold Nowina - Sawicki). He fought in the Battle of Monte Cassino.