Marian Wodzinsky ( Polish: Marian Wodziński ) (1911-1986) - candidate of medical sciences , member of the technical commission of the Polish Red Cross of 1943 for the investigation of the Katyn crime .
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| Date of Birth | May 8, 1911 |
| Place of Birth | Tarnow , Poland |
| Date of death | July 21, 1986 (aged 75) |
| Place of death | Liverpool , UK |
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Biography
Marian Wodzinsky was born on May 8, 1911 in Tarnuwa . Father - Wladyslaw Emilian (1878-1947), was the head of the 1st Treasury Office ( Polish I Kasa Skarbowa ) in Krakow. Mother - Rosalia, nee Rusinek (1882-1979). He had a brother Stanislav. The Vodzinsky clan belongs to the Yastrzhembek coat of arms.
He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University in 1936 and worked at the Department of Pathological Anatomy at Professor Stanislav Tsekhanovsky in the Cracow University . There he also received a doctorate, roughly corresponding to a candidate of medical sciences. Then he was an assistant at the Department of Forensic Medicine with Professor Jan Olbricht. Since March 1940, he was in ZWZ , and since 1943 in AK .
In April 1943, after the Germans discovered the Katyn graves, he was appointed by the Polish Red Cross a forensic expert on the commission to investigate the crime scene. The commission worked in Katyn for 5 weeks. Vodzinsky compiled a report on his work. During the exhumation, he found, among others, the remains of Major Dr. Viktor Kalitsinsky. Kalitsinsky was a legionnaire, doctor of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, and a relative of sister-in-law Marian Wodzinsky Christina of the Drezinsky family. He handed over the letters found on the murdered to the family.
Katyn
In March 1945, together with Dr. Jan Robl, he was arrested and interrogated by the NKVD . Thanks to the very decisive intervention of the rector of the Jagiellonian University, Professor T. Ler-Splavinsky and Dean of Professor J. Supnevsky, the doctors were released from custody. Vodzinsky was hiding out of fear for his life. In July 1945, the Prosecutor's Office of the Special Criminal Court in Krakow sent out a notice of his search, signed by the deputy prosecutor, Dr. Roman Martini . This notice was published, inter alia, in the newspaper .
In December 1945, Dr. Marian Wodzinsky secretly left Poland and settled in Liverpool . There he started a family and worked as a doctor; had a son and a daughter. I never came to Poland again. He was visited by his mother, and he met with his brother secretly abroad. In 1947, he submitted a report on his participation in the commission [1] to the archive of the Polish Armed Forces ( Polish. Polskie Siły Zbrojne na Zachodzie ) in London . They have been repeatedly published in the Polish press and abroad. He died in Liverpool on July 21, 1986. The urn with the ashes was placed in a family crypt in the Old Tarnuwa Cemetery .
Notes
- ↑ C. Madaychik. Katyn Drama (report fragments)
Bibliography
- Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn. Gedruckt im Deutchen Verlag, Berlin 1943
- List rektora UJ do Ministra Oświaty, 498/45, z dnia 03/23/1945
- List rektora UJ do Prezydenta Krajowej Rady Narodowej obyw. Bieruta, 499/45, z dnia 03.24.1945.
- "Dziennik Polski", List gończy, nr 158, 07.15.1945
- Zbrodnia katyńska w świetle dokumentów relacja dr Mariana Wodzińskiego, Londyn 1962, s. 157-188.