Mieczysław Seweryn (1895-1940) i Stanisław (1896-1939) Kwileccy – uczestnicy powstania wielkopolskiego i właściciele ziemscy
Mieczysław Seweryn Kwilecki (1895-1940) and Stanisław Kwilecki (1896-1939) –Participants in the Greater Poland Uprising and Landowners

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the lives of two landowners from Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) region. Brothers Mieczysław Seweryn Kwilecki and Stanisław Kwilecki were participants in the Greater Poland Uprising and ardent Polish patriots. As landowners, they played an important role in the activation of local community, of which they were natural leaders. Consequently, a lot of information can be found about them, but it is not always confirmed by documents. Therefore, facts known so far have been collected and verified in this article. Personal records kept in the Central Military Archive in Warsaw-Rembertów were of great importance here. Both brothers died during the Second World War. On 10th November 1939, Stanisław was executed by the Germans as part of Intelligenzaktion (Intelligentsia mass shootings). Mieczysław was murdered by the NKVD in April 1940 and is buried at the Cemetery for Victims of Totalitarianism in Kharkiv-Piatykhatky. The article also describes the fate of the closest family members of both landowners.

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