The Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression is the main institution dealing with the matters of Veterans of struggles for independence and Victims of Oppression in Poland. The Office's functions and resposibilities have been defined in legal acts establishing the special status of beneficiaries of the Veterans' law. It's main tasks consist of:

  • awarding the status of Veteran struggles for independence, Victim of Oppression and person deported to perform forced labor
  • providing the Veterans and Victims of Oppression with help, special care and proper respect
  • spreading the tradition of struggles for independence of Poland


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75th anniversary of the fighting of the 1st Grenadier Division in France

On 21 June 2015, the Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression Jan Stanisław Ciechanowski took part in a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the fighting of the Polish 1st Grenadier Division at the cemetery in Dieuze in Lorraine in France. On 18 June 1940, Polish soldiers under the command of General Bronisław Duch, fighting in defence of France in the vicinity of Dieuze and Lagarde, threw back a massed attack of German forces in hand-to-hand combat.

We remember such places as this cemetery at which rest the defenders of our freedom – said the Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression during the ceremonies.

The memory of these heroes was commemorated by wreaths laid under the monument at the Polish war cemetery. Among those taking part in these ceremonies was the sub-prefect of Sarrebourg and Château-Salins Eric Infante, the mayor of Dieuze Ferdinand Lormant and representatives of the Association of Reservists and Ex-Servicemen of the Republic of Poland in France which has been in existence since 1928, and members of the Polish community residing in Lorraine.

  

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