Henryk Toruńczyk

Col. Henryk Torunczyk, born in Włocławek, (1909–1966) 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. From 1943 he was instrumental in forming the Samodzielny Batalion Szturmowy. In 1945 he was briefly commanding officer of the Polish Internal Security Corps.

He is also called: Henrik Torunczyk and Henrik Tourunczyk.

Awards and decorations

Partisan Cross