VETERANS OF BATTLES ON ALL FRONTS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR! RESIDENTS OF BOLESŁAWIEC! SOLDIERS!
Today, on the 50th anniversary of our city’s return to the Motherland after centuries of foreign rule, we stand before the monument to the Polish soldier who fought and bled selflessly for this city and for all Polish cities on the fronts of the Second World War.
We stand here in silence and reflection to recall all those for whom Poland was, and remained until their final moment, the highest good. They gave their young lives to her and worked selflessly for her.
Here we stand together, united by heartfelt thoughts of all the known and unknown soldiers of this land who, through their deeds and sacrifice, restored it to Poland.
I address you: sons and daughters of the Polish nation, who did not fail in the time of cruel trial and showed the world that you were worthy of Poland.
I call you to roll call: stand as you stood to fight for our identity, for our inalienable right to sovereign and independent existence.
I call you to roll call: soldiers of Polish September, defenders of WESTERPLATTE and WIZNA, GRODNO and LVIV, WARSAW and MODLIN, participants in the battles of MŁAWA, MOKRA, in the TUCHOLA FOREST and on the BZURA, the brave fighters of ZAMBROW, TOMASZÓW LUBELSKI and KOCK; all the heroes of the defensive war.
STAND TO ROLL CALL! FALLEN ON THE FIELD OF GLORY!
I call you all: Polish soldiers whose front-line roads led from the west and east to their beloved Homeland.
I call you, wandering soldiers from NARVIK and TOBRUK, LENINO and MONTE CASSINO, THE POMERANIAN RAMPART and FALAISE, KOŁOBRZEG, ARNHEM and BERLIN.
I call you, resistance fighters, soldiers of all organizations and groups who fought for Poland and gave their lives for her.
STAND TO ROLL CALL! FALLEN ON THE FIELD OF GLORY!
I call upon the wartime predecessors of our Bolesławiec military units, which inherited your traditions of selfless service and struggle.
I call you, soldiers of the 18th Light Artillery Regiment, the 1st and 66th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiments.
STAND TO ROLL CALL! FALLEN ON THE FIELD OF GLORY!
I call you, soldiers of the 2nd Polish Army, whose graves are scattered across the Lower Silesian land, those who fought with rifles in their hands for its Polish character.
I call Lieutenant Bolesław WALKIEWICZ, Master Gunner SMOLEŃSKI, Corporal Stanisław TOBIS, Corporal Kazimierz WIERCIŃSKI, Gunner Henryk POHIBIELKO, and 28 unknown soldiers who, giving their young lives for the Homeland, found eternal rest in our Bolesławiec land.
STAND TO ROLL CALL! FALLEN ON THE FIELD OF GLORY!
I call you, selfless residents of our city, whom the turmoil of war and the policies of the great powers deprived of your homes and native places and gathered here by the Bóbr.
I call you who, sparing neither effort nor toil, restored this city to Poland, organized social and economic life, and rebuilt it from the wartime destruction.
Aware of the achievements of our predecessors, I call to this jubilee roll call on the Bóbr:
- the first mayor of BOLESŁAWIEC, Bolesław KUBIK, and the municipal office employees:
Anna PAWEŁKIEWICZ, Władysław BURKOWSKI
Józef JASZTAL
Jan KOZENDRA
who fell on 21 July 1945 as a result of a mine explosion.
I call you: organizers of state administration and economic life in the region and city, distinguished residents of the city:
Karol BIENIASZEK,
Jan KUMOSZ,
Michał SKOCZEŃ,
Napoleon MARKIEWICZ,
Jan ROGOWSKI,
Jan FRANCZAK,
Stanisław WASILEWSKI,
Michał BIGOSIŃSKI,
Colonel Henryk WAWRZYNOWICZ,
Juliusz JAMROZ,
Zofia KŁOSOWSKA,
Jan MARKOWSKI,
Irena and Alojzy SKORUPA
Polish community activists from Yugoslavia:
Ignacy KUNECKI
Józef ROZMUS and Stanisław PADEWSKI
I call you, creators of the foundations of education and healthcare, who in pioneering conditions brought Polish life to this empty city, devastated by wartime operations.
I call: Stefania TAJCHNER, Władysław TATARCZAN, Helena and Wincenty TYRANKIEWICZ, Wiktoria and Józef GAŁKIEWICZ, Colonel Józef KŁOSOWSKI, Krystyna RAUCHÓWNA, Jan MARKIEWICZ
I call you, the first pastors who came to our city to build a new community of the faithful amid the material and spiritual ruins. To unite them around the purpose for which they came here from various parts of the country and Europe and to establish a native home in this city restored to Poland.
I call: Rev. Andrzej GROMADZKI, Rev. Jan MOTYKA, Rev. Cyryl LEWALSKI, Rev. Aleksander STYCZEK.
STAND TO ROLL CALL! HONOR THEIR MEMORY!
The names and deeds of the fallen and deceased soldiers, as well as the pioneering settlers of our city, will remain in our memory forever.
May their achievements become an enduring encouragement to fulfill our civic duties for the benefit and glory of the Republic of Poland and our beautiful BOLESŁAWIEC.
May every day of selfless service and work for the state and for each of us serve this city. May it spread the renown of its beauty and enterprise. May it be a form of reparation to all those who, over the course of 50 years, shaped its present form.