Józef_Kuras_Ogień.jpg

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English: Józef Kuraś , (noms de guerre "Orzeł" (Eagle), "Ogień" (Fire)), 1915-1947 lieutenant in the Polish Army who fought in the Polish September Campaign, a partisan of Armia Krajowa and Bataliony Chłopskie in the Podhale region and after World War II one of the leaders of anticommunist resistance. He died in Nowy Targ on February 22, 1947 from a self inflicted wound after being surrounded by units of Polish secret police. Vilified by communist propaganda, he was officially rehabilitated after the fall of communism

Date

before 1947

Source

Institute of National Remembrance ,Poland see http://www.rp.pl/galeria/2,6,629250.html

Author

Unknown author

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This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland , all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements:

it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days),
it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States,
it was in the public domain in its home country ( Poland ) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).

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Józef Kuraś