Warsaw, 10 February 1990
Mr. Jerzy [Jędrzej] Tucholski
First of all, I want to express my warmest thanks to you for taking up such a difficult, time- consuming, and tedious job as the completion of the list of losses from three camps.
I would also like to thank you because the list of losses which you published in the “Zorza” weekly was for me a strong reminder that we owe these people who were so cruelly murdered our memory at the very least.
But let me now finish these personal observations and go straight to the point. I believe that in the future I will have a chance to talk to you personally.
On the list of losses published in the “Zorza” weekly no. 27/89, and concerning the camp in Kozelsk, I found under item 5069 the surname of my uncle, flying officer in active service Czesław Wolański, who went missing during the war.
So far, I’ve managed to determine the following: he was born on 17 January 1912 in Łomża as son of Ludwik and Wiktoria née Urbanowska. In 1932, he obtained his school-leaving diploma from the Officer Cadet Corps no. 3 in Rawicz. Next, from 29 September 1932, he studied at the Air Force Training Center in Dęblin, where on 11 August 1934 he was appointed second lieutenant in the aerodynamics officer corps, and went on to serve with the 3rd Air Force Regiment in Kraków. Nobody has seen him after the war. From the Registrar’s Office in Łomża I learned that his files went missing during the war and were not recreated after the cessation of hostilities, which may testify to the fact that he didn’t return to the country. His thin personal file is kept by the Central Military Archives in Rembertów, but there is no information what happened to him after he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant (file no. 7813).
Unfortunately, this is all I have managed to learn. I will continue my efforts to find more information about my uncle.
By way of conclusion, I would like to add that my sister and I are his only surviving relatives.
Yours sincerely