Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis
Born(1889-04-03)April 3, 1889
Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate
DiedMarch 24, 1973(1973-03-24) (aged 83)
Royal Tunbridge Wells, England
Commands held1st Brigade of Polish Legions

Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition, and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions.

He was also the organizer of unsuccessful coup in 1919, general in the Second Polish Republic and Polish Armed Forces in the West, voivode of the Nowogródek Voivodeship (1924-1926), and member of the Polish government in Exile.

Following the Soviet invasion of Poland he founded the Organization for the Struggle for Freedom in Lwów.[1] He was arrested by NKVD on 27 October 1939 and imprisoned in Lwów and then in Moscow Lubyanka prison. After the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement of July 1941, he was released. After the war, he remained in exile in the United Kingdom, where he died in March 1973 and was buried in Crawley cemetery next to his wife. In November 1981, his ashes were brought to Poland – resting in the New Cemetery in Zakopane, in legionnaires' quarters.

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References

  1. Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953, Oxford University Press, edited by Timothy Snyder, Ray Brandon, page 149
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