TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Editor-in-Chief: Józef Białynia Chołodecki. Lviv, October 31, 1925.
TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Editor-in-Chief: Józef Białynia Chołodecki. Lviv, October 31, 1925.
p. 40. Dimensions: 31 x 23.5 cm. Brochure. Published by the Provincial Citizens’ Committee in Lviv. Illustrations (sarcophagus of the Unknown Soldier). Stamp: “From the collection of Henryk Bednarski.”
A commemorative one-day publication issued on the occasion of the exhumation of the remains of the Unknown Soldier at the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lviv and their transport to Warsaw. On October 29, 1925, Jadwiga Zarugiewiczowa, the mother of Konstanty Zarugiewicz—who fell in battle in 1920 near Zadwórze and whose body was never found—selected one of the three coffins. The selected remains were interred on November 2, 1925, in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw.
The publication includes commemorative patriotic texts, poems—including works by Jan Kasprowicz—and the program of the ceremony.
Henryk Bednarski (1907–1991)—born in Lviv, an outstanding Polish collector. After World War II, he moved most of his collection to Kraków.
TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Editor-in-Chief: Józef Białynia Chołodecki. Lviv, October 31, 1925.
p. 40. Dimensions: 31 x 23.5 cm. Brochure. Published by the Provincial Citizens’ Committee in Lviv. Illustrations (sarcophagus of the Unknown Soldier). Stamp: “From the collection of Henryk Bednarski.”
A commemorative one-day publication issued on the occasion of the exhumation of the remains of the Unknown Soldier at the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lviv and their transport to Warsaw. On October 29, 1925, Jadwiga Zarugiewiczowa, the mother of Konstanty Zarugiewicz—who fell in battle in 1920 near Zadwórze and whose body was never found—selected one of the three coffins. The selected remains were interred on November 2, 1925, in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw.
The publication includes commemorative patriotic texts, poems—including works by Jan Kasprowicz—and the program of the ceremony.
Henryk Bednarski (1907–1991)—born in Lviv, an outstanding Polish collector. After World War II, he moved most of his collection to Kraków.
