Stanislaw Swianiewicz

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Stanis¿aw Swianiewicz (1899-1997) was a Polish economist and historian. A veteran of the Polish-Bolshevik War, during World War II he was one of the few survivors of the Katyn Massacre and an eye witness of the transport of Polish prisoners of war to the forests outside Smolensk by the NKVD.Stanis¿aw Swianiewicz was born on November 7, 1899 in Dvinsk in Imperial Russia (modern Daugavpils, Latvia), to a Polish szlachta family. Brought up in the multi-cultural society of Livonia, he spoke Polish, Russian and German as his native tongues. After graduating from a trade school in Orel, he attended Moscow University's Law Faculty, which then included all social sciences. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 he left Moscow and returned to his homeland, where in 1919 he became a commander of the Polska Organizacja Wojskowa in the area of Livonia.