Commemorating soldiers of signal corps in Zegrze
Plaque commemorating the soldiers
of signal corps who were killed in the East
Among the victims of the Katyn massacre, carried out in 1940 by the NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR), there were more than a hundred signal corps officers. Among them, there were also officers from the Information and Communications Technology Training Centre in Zegrze: Major and medical doctor Kazimierz Pilch, captain Czesław Wardziński, captain Ryszard Michalski, captain Bronislaw Rybiński, first lieutenant Stanislaw Szpot and second lieutenant Tadeusz Pierczyński. In Katyn and Kharkov, other eight reserve officers from the Centre for Emergency Communications in Zegrze, mobilized after the outbreak of the war, were also killed.
The plaque commemorating the murdered signal corps soldiers was unveiled on 15 August, 1992 at the Military Communication Institute in Zegrze, during the meeting of Polish Army signal corps veterans from around the world.
Plaque commemorating women telegraphers ‘juzistki’ (name after the Hughes telegraph) of military communications units
In the years 1927-1936, ten-month telegraph courses were carried out in the Information and Communications Technology Training Centre in Zegrze for the female staff. Women learnt primarily how to use the Hughes’s telegraph („Juza”) and ended up in post offices. In the event of war, they would be mobilized. Women telegraphers were instrumental in the history of military communications, fighting on many fronts of World War II.
The plaque commemorating their participation in the armed actions was officially unveiled on 26 May 1992 at the Military Communication Institute in Zegrze during the meeting of women telegraphers, the socalled ‘juzistki’. One street in Zegrze bears their name.
(Admission to the barracks of the Information and Communications Technology Training Centre by appointment, agreed with the officers of the Educational Section – Phone: 22 688 36 10, 22 688 36 12).
Among the victims of the Katyn massacre, carried out in 1940 by the NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR), there were more than a hundred signal corps officers. Among them, there were also officers from the Information and Communications Technology Training Centre in Zegrze: Major and medical doctor Kazimierz Pilch, captain Czesław Wardziński, captain Ryszard Michalski, captain Bronislaw Rybiński, first lieutenant Stanislaw Szpot and second lieutenant Tadeusz Pierczyński. In Katyn and Kharkov, other eight reserve officers from the Centre for Emergency Communications in Zegrze, mobilized after the outbreak of the war, were also killed.
The plaque commemorating the murdered signal corps soldiers was unveiled on 15 August, 1992 at the Military Communication Institute in Zegrze, during the meeting of Polish Army signal corps veterans from around the world.
Plaque commemorating women telegraphers ‘juzistki’ (name after the Hughes telegraph) of military communications units
In the years 1927-1936, ten-month telegraph courses were carried out in the Information and Communications Technology Training Centre in Zegrze for the female staff. Women learnt primarily how to use the Hughes’s telegraph („Juza”) and ended up in post offices. In the event of war, they would be mobilized. Women telegraphers were instrumental in the history of military communications, fighting on many fronts of World War II.
The plaque commemorating their participation in the armed actions was officially unveiled on 26 May 1992 at the Military Communication Institute in Zegrze during the meeting of women telegraphers, the socalled ‘juzistki’. One street in Zegrze bears their name.
(Admission to the barracks of the Information and Communications Technology Training Centre by appointment, agreed with the officers of the Educational Section – Phone: 22 688 36 10, 22 688 36 12).