The Armia Krajowa: Key Events and Figures Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Władysław Filipkowski, a Polish resistance fighter and commander of the Lwów Uprising against Nazi Germany occupiers in 1944, was soon afterwards arrested by the Soviet NKVD and imprisoned for three years.

in the 1944 Battle of Murowana Oszmianka, the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa dealt a significant defeat to the Nazi-Lithuanian Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force.

the Warsaw Armoured Motorized Brigade of the Polish Army during the German invasion in 1939, was commanded by Stefan Rowecki, who later became the first commander of the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa.

the underground Home Army courier, Irena Adamowicz, provided communication and moral support for the Jewish ghettos of several distant cities during the occupation of Poland.

Henryk Woliński, Polish resistance Armia Krajowa member, was responsible for the creation of Żegota and saving the lives of thousands of Polish Jews in WWII.

Henryk Iwański, member of Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in WWII, commanded several incursions into the Warsaw Ghetto in support of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters.

Adolf Pilch, Polish resistance fighter trained by SOE during WWII, fought against both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Aleksander Krzyżanowski , commander of Polish resistance in the Vilnius region, was arrested by the Soviets after his unit helped them liberate Vilnius from the Germans.

Antoni Bohdziewicz, a Polish film director, was a member of the Armia Krajowa Polish resistance and worked on a documentary film made and shown entirely in besieged Warsaw.

Antoni Heda, one of the most successful partisan commanders in Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in World War II, was sentenced to death on 7 consecutive charges by the Polish communists' government.

cancer specialist Julian Aleksandrowicz, a Polish Jew, joined Polish resistance Armia Krajowa after being aided in the Kraków ghetto by one of the Polish Righteous.

The Armia Krajowa: Key Events and Figures

1 [5] The officer cadre was formed from pre-war officers and NCOs, graduates of underground courses and elite operatives usually parachuted from the West (________).

2 Many AK soldiers continued fight after World War II in anti-Soviet Polish underground, known as the ________.

3 [5] In the summer of 1944 when ________ begun AK reached its highest membership numbers.

4 [13] The largest and best known of the Operation Tempest battles was the Warsaw Uprising – the attempt to liberate ________, the capital of Poland.

5 ________

6 ________, Rising '44, Macmillan, 2003.

7 Even at this time however, some partisans remained in the countryside, unwilling or simply unable to rejoin the community; they became known as the ________.

8 The AK's primary resistance operations were the sabotage of German activities, including transports headed for the Eastern Front in the ________.

9 The most widely known AK operation was the failed ________.

10 Although a Polish-Soviet agreement was signed in August, co-operation continued to be difficult, and deteriorated further after the ________ was publicized in 1943.

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