Jan Rogowski

Jan Rogowski (cichociemny) (noms de guerre Jan Szulak, Piotr Jaczynski, Julian Koba, Zbigniew Plecki, Piotr Pomerski, Stefan Zawidzki, Czarka, Kacz) was a soldier of the Polish Army, Polish Armed Forces in the West and the Home Army. A member of the elite special operations group, Cichociemni, Rogowski was sent from Great Britain to occupied Poland. Captured by the Germans, he was murdered by the Gestapo on February 16, 1944 in Radom.

Born on November 21, 1913 in Warsaw, he frequently changed locations as a child, living in Kamieniec Podolski, Zakopane, Romania, to finally return to Warsaw, where he attended the Jan Zamoyski Middle School. In 1926, Rogowski moved to Rawicz, to study at the Third Cadet Corps. After graduation (1932), he studied at Warsaw University of Technology and Warsaw University of Life Sciences, but did not complete his studies.

Rogowski was the son of a nobleman Boleslaw and Julia née Lipkowska. His father was a landowner in Russian Podolia and Ukraine. As officer of the Imperial Russian Army, he was killed in action in Bessarabia, in 1916. In 1933 - 1934, Jan attended the School of Artillery Reserve Officers at Wlodzimierz Wolynski, and in 1935, he took a job at the Ursus Factory. Some time in the late 1930s, je moved to Volhynia, to oversee the real estate of Chinocze, located near Sarny. He was an active member of the National Party and Camp of Great Poland.

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