The president of Poczta Polska visited a 102-year-old-former postal and "Steadfast Soldier"
On Monday, January 30, Krzysztof Falkowski, president of the company, visited an extraordinary postal. Lieutenant Colonel Kazimierz Szostakowski - Kobelis, is a former postal worker and a cursed soldier who was 1o2. The postal distinguished for the country also received an unusual gift. The president of Poczta Polska appreciated the biography of the hero, handing him a commemorative medal with the image of Zygmunt August II, the founder of Poczta Polska.
- Mr. Biography is a beautiful card of Polish patriot, and the service for our homeland, also through postal activities, deserves the highest recognition. As postalists, we are very proud that you were our employee. We wish you a lot of health and well -being, allowing you to share memories of younger generations that need real authorities. Such people like you, this is a role model in every time - said Krzysztof Falkowski, president of Poczta Polska.
Mr. Kazimierz was born on January 30, 1921 in the Polish-Lithuanian noble family of the "Łabędź" coat of arms in Vilnius. He comes from a family with great traditions and patriotic values. In 1936 he personally participated in the funeral of the heart of Marshal Piłsudski at Vilnius Rossa as a member of the flagship post. He was an active scout and member of the "Sokół" Gymnastic Society. He took part as a volunteer in defense of Vilnius in September 1939.
From April 1943 to August 1944, he served in the partisan units of the Home Army District of the Vilnius District, Oblast and Inspectorate Oszmian, commanded by Maj. Czesław Dębicki "Jarema" and in a horse uplift. He also dealt with counterintelligence. He was a participant in the operation of the "Ostra Gate", as well as the battles with Germany near Switzerland. In 1948 he was arrested by the Security Office for belonging to the Home Army, then sentenced to 8 years in prison, deprivation of public rights to 4 years and total forfeiture of property. Despite the fancy torture, starvation and mental harassment, he did not publish any of his colleagues. He spent a year in isolation, without contact with the environment. Attempts to break Mr. Kazimierz failed, he took all responsibility.
He served a sentence in a prison in Wronki to an amnesty announced in 1956. After being released, he worked in the then structure of Poczta Polska in Pasłęk. After 1989, he operated in veterans' organizations - the World Union of Home Army Soldiers. From 1991, he has been an ordinary member of the World Union of Home Army Soldiers and a member of the Social Committee for the Construction of the Monument of the Polish Underground State and the Home Army in Słupsk. Awarded with many honorable state decorations, today he is an icon of the first and second conspiracy of the independence underground.
