Mirosław Iringh

Mirosław "Stanko" Iringh (28 February 1914 – 28 May 1985) was a Polish-Slovak lieutenant and a commander of the 535th Slovak Platoon unit, serving under the command of the Polish Home Army (AK), part of the 1st Company of the Battalion "Tur", "Kryska" Group, Mokotów region, which took part in the Warsaw Uprising, in particular in the heavy fighting in Czerniaków and in Praga.

Background Mirosław Iringh was born on 28 February 1914 in Warsaw. He came from a mixed Polish-Slovak family. His father moved to Warsaw from Slovakia, supposedly because of "political reasons" (at the time Slovakia was part of Austria-Hungary) and married a Polish woman, Helena Perzanowska.

September campaign In September 1939, after the Nazi invasion of Poland, together with his father Stanisław, he took part in the defense of Warsaw in the ranks of the Czech and Slovak Volunteer Legion. After his father died in this battle, Mirosław took the conspiratorial name "Stanko" in honor of his father.

Joining the resistance At the beginning of 1943, together with Adam Chalupec, Mirosław Iringh organized the "Underground Slovak National Committee" (SKN), which made contact with the representatives of the Home Army, and established civilian and military relations.< At the end of 1943 an agreement was reached between the SKN and the Home Army command, which called for the formation of a separate Slovak military unit within the structure of the Home Army – Platoon 535. The unit was to be distinguished by armbands and a regimental standard in Slovak national colors, white-blue-red, as opposed to the red and white colors of the rest of the Home Army soldiers. He wrote for the newspapers Život (the newspaper of the Slovak Community in Poland, which Iringh helped to organize), Gazeta Lubelska,

One of the squares in the Czerniaków part of Warsaw, where his unit engaged in heavy fighting with the Germans is named after him.