Henryk Toruńczyk

Who was Henryk Toruńczyk?

Col. Henryk Torunczyk, born in Włocławek, was a Polish soldier. He later volunteered to fight with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He was sometime commander of the Naftali Botwin Company; Chief of Staff of XIII International Brigade and leader of an International Unit formed in January 1939 from a rump of Brigade veterans who remained in Spain after demoblisation. They crossed the border in Spain on about 9 January 1939 He later became a partisan. Since 1943 he was surveyor of forming with NKVD aid Szamodzielny Batalion Szturmowy.

He is also called: Henrik Torunczyk and Henrik Tourunczyk.