Ivan the Exchange

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Ivan White (born in 1897 in Bialystok, probably in Bialystok in 1946) is a Belarusian national political and military activist, commander of the Białystok battalion of the Belarusian People's Self-Help, and then commander of the military battalion " Dalwitz "during World War II.

He participated in the First World War as an officer of the Russian army. In 1919 he joined the white army commanded by Gen. Nikolay Judenicz. He participated in their unsuccessful offensive at Petrograd. By the fall of 1920 he fought with the Bolshevik armies in the ranks of Gen. Stanisław Bułak-Balachowicz's army. He then settled in Bialystok. He participated actively in the Belarusian national movement. He was a leading activist of the Belarusian Włościańsko-Robotnicza Hromada, its leader in the Sokol district, for which in 1927 he was arrested by the Polish authorities. At the beginning. 1939 took part in the illegal Hromada conference in Baranavichy. After the USSR attack on Poland on September 17, 1939, he was transferred to the Polish territories occupied by the Germans, saving himself from being arrested by the NKVD. When the German army invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941, he returned in July to Bialystok. He was a speaker in the city council. In 1943, he organized various military units of the Belarusian Self-Helping People's Army in various locations in Bialystok. At the same time, he assumed command of the battalion of Self-Help in Bialystok. On the other hand he acted in the conspiratorial Belarusian Independence Party; was a leader in Bialystok. At the beginning. 1944, along with a group of Belarussian military battalions of Bialystok, was arrested by the Gestapo on charges of independence. In June of this year he was released into the wild. After evacuating to Germany, he served as a military commander of the "Dalwitz" landing battalion stationed in East Prussia from July. At the beginning. February 1945 became part of the Belarusian Central Council based in Berlin. He participated in the April conference in Berlin at her illegal conference. In May he went to Belarus, but in June he was arrested by the Soviets. After the trial of members of the Belarusian Independence Party, he was sentenced to death, executed in 1946, probably in Bialystok.

Biography of Ivan Hussain (Belarusian language)

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