tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post4854072742900803698..comments2024-03-19T21:41:42.835+01:00Comments on Poemas del río Wang: Lemberg: the fifth grave of the hero of GazaStudiolumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-21935067307272524722012-05-31T17:27:00.961+02:002012-05-31T17:27:00.961+02:00What and amazing story, Studiolum! Yet, what is th...What and amazing story, <b>Studiolum</b>! Yet, what is that spirit which makes it amazing? "Brave old world" probably...<br /><br />MOCKBA, I am checking out povignaroda.ru regularly to find my grandpa (he had few medals), but it seems that they didn't finish entering all the awards yet.Arazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14791220527752500079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-91499971902489222222012-05-31T16:50:33.087+02:002012-05-31T16:50:33.087+02:00It is quite possible that captain Truszkowski was ...It is quite possible that captain Truszkowski was a relative of Zygmunt Truszkowski (d. 1949 in Lwów), a Polish priest and a parson of St. Mary Magdalene Church in Lwów. There is an interesting anecdote about this man. After WWII, when the Soviets started occupation of Lwów, the priest was arrested. The officials from NKVD were interested in a seizure of his house (maybe the same house you were looking for in Lwów). During one of the hearings Truszkowski told his oppressors: "If only Lenin had known what you are doing with me, he certainly wolud have stood up for me". - "So, did you know Lenin?" - asked very surprised investigators. It occured that in 1914 when Lenin was living in Biały Dunajec in Polish Podhale region, the priest was a parson in a nearby parish of Poronin. They both quite often met discussing religious questions and even once Lenin borrowed from Truszkowski 300 koronas. After few weeks he gave him the money back sending it by mail. Startled officials demanded evidence from the priest. So, he wrote a letter home asking for sending him the Lenin's letter. After receiving an authentic Lenin's correspondence by the prison authorities Zygmunt Truszkowski was not only released from the arrest but also got money for the trip back to Lwów (actually he was detained in a jail in Złoczów) and the Soviet authorities agreed to open for him St. Mary Magdalene Church in Lwów.Pawelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-80414817412358177752012-05-31T16:09:21.632+02:002012-05-31T16:09:21.632+02:00Amazing story! BTW, not sure if you got my email, ...Amazing story! BTW, not sure if you got my email, but here is <a href="http://www.podvignaroda.mil.ru/" rel="nofollow">the military archive link</a> I wanted to send you. Make sure to click on "whole-document" image, there you can find years and places of birth and other biographic info missing in the little excerpts returned by a search. Araz - have you checked it already?MOCKBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150628026789690963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-2404281532366571782012-05-31T15:57:56.826+02:002012-05-31T15:57:56.826+02:00Dear Effe,
I would just add a few more thoughts ...Dear Effe, <br /><br />I would just add a few more thoughts to Studiolum's reply which I basically agree with.<br /><br />One of them is purely semantic. "Dying a heroic death" or "dying a hero's death" means nothing else than falling in combat. So when Truszkowski "died a hero's death", it was his death, so he must be a hero. :-)<br /><br />But going beyond word quibblings, his final acting and death for me is an example of an old fashioned kind of chivalrous heroism that for us today might seem strange and meaningless. Well, if we have a look at the facts: the Austrian command position was encircled by the British, and it must have been completely clear for the defenders that there were no chances to escape, and keeping on fighting was equal with suicide. And indeed, virtually everyone on the hill was taken as prisoners: virtually all officers of battery 2/6 who was at the observation point at that time, the division's veterinarian and all other personnel including the batmen and the cooks. The only one - so it seems from the story - still fighting back was the Captain. It must have been something to do with his personal honor: he as the highest commandant of all Austrian troops on the Palestine front and as a son of a noble family did not want to act cowardly before his men and possibly could not bear the shame of getting taken captured. Was his death meaningless? Surely it was in our eyes, but maybe it was meaningful for him, a strangely satisfying culmination of a long military career. So taking this absolutely not easy final decision _was_ a heroic deed.<br /><br />This is only my very personal interpretation - you can take it or leave it.Liang Shenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06150433124241554291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-38427985687092396992012-05-31T14:29:41.880+02:002012-05-31T14:29:41.880+02:00I beg your pardon, Studiolum: my stictness about w...I beg your pardon, Studiolum: my stictness about war restrained me from catching your irony.<br />Waiting for your posts coming very soon.Effenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-15644963285052625362012-05-31T14:02:11.426+02:002012-05-31T14:02:11.426+02:00This may be of interest to you.
http://www.nybooks...This may be of interest to you.<br />http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/may/30/nazis-lviv-contested-past/Rupert Neil Bumfreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04460239805603476978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-46313862960959333222012-05-31T13:43:55.987+02:002012-05-31T13:43:55.987+02:00With the terms “heroic” and “hero” we just followe...With the terms “heroic” and “hero” we just followed – not without irony – the usage of the period. My real opinion on the death of Captain Truszkowski (and of other millions on any side of the fronts) is revealed <a href="http://riowang.blogspot.com/2009/01/la-lingua-piu-divertente-del-mondo.html" rel="nofollow">here in Italian</a> and <a href="http://riowang.blogspot.com/2009/01/most-entertaining-language-of-world.html" rel="nofollow">here in English.</a><br /><br />And yes, the search for the house and all the people we encountered on the way is/are really extraordinary – in any other part of the world, but not in Lemberg and Galicia, where similar stories pop up immediately as soon as you start to seriously look for something. Just wait for the history of the forgotten Jewish cemeteries of Buchach! (to be written soon)<br /><br />Thank you, Pawel. Yes, I did not mean that Lwów was <i>the</i> capital of Western Galicia (and here immediately an error: I wanted to write <i>Eastern</i> Galicia, so now I correct it), but that it was the central city of the region and shared its fate during the Polish-Soviet war. Now I reformulate it in a less ambiguous way.Studiolumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-26910554104325672332012-05-31T12:51:11.799+02:002012-05-31T12:51:11.799+02:00What an astonishing story!
Reality overcomes fanta...What an astonishing story!<br />Reality overcomes fantasy.<br />Once again, you investigated things that have disappeared.<br /><br />While I don’t understand why Truszkowski’s death should be seen as heroic, I find the second part of your story so extraordinary, especially the part about the old lawyer born in a concentration camp, who knows both how to button properly and when Hungarian historians need an angelic apparition.Effenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-45678404504367954592012-05-31T12:14:46.215+02:002012-05-31T12:14:46.215+02:00An extraordinary story. Congratulations. By the wa...An extraordinary story. Congratulations. By the way, Lwów was not a capital of "Western Galicia". The city was a capital of the whole Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.Pawelnoreply@blogger.com