Piotr Woźniak (soldier)

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Piotr Woźniak (born 1912, died April 23, 1988) - soldier of the AK and the post-war underground, political prisoner, author of the famous book Dwarf Dwarf in the years 1982-1990.

He was a soldier of the AK (captain), and after the war he was acting in the underground, he was a commander of the Rzeszow district of the National Military Union (formerly named NOW). He was nicknamed "The Whirl". Repeatedly imprisoned by a security guard. In May 1949 the Military Court in Rzeszow was sentenced to death. The sentence was not executed, later it was changed to a prison sentence of many years. He stayed there. in prisons in Rzeszów and in Wronki. Released in the thaw.

He is the author of several books describing war experience (as an AK soldier) as well as postwar. The author published in 1982 in Paris by Editions Meeting of the autobiographical book The Dwarf of the Dwarf Reaction: The Memory of an AK from a Prison in PRL, in which he described his prisoner fate. It was a very important publication and very loud during the war. It had 16 underground releases in 1982-1989. (Last edition 2001 ISBN 83-88160-07-9).

He died on April 23, 1988 as the last surviving leader of the NZW; He was buried in Bytom on April 26, 1988.

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