Henryk Witczak; Fought With Polish Army
Henryk Witczak, a retired water district employee, has died at the age of 83.
Witczak, who died Friday at his Camarillo home, was born Feb. 18, 1918, in Warsaw, Poland.
During World War II, he fought against the German occupation of his country and later against the communists as a soldier in the Polish National Army.
In 1944, he was transferred to a special offensive unit that trained in Kielce, Poland. In January 1945, his division joined the Swietokrzyska Brigade of the Polish National Army in the Silesian region of southern Poland. On May 6, his brigade joined Gen. George Patton’s American forces near Pilsen.
After the war, when Poland fell into the hands of communist Russia, Witczak continued to fight for Poland’s freedom outside his country’s borders.
He married an Austrian woman named Rosa in 1951 and they moved to the U.S. She died in 1976.
In 1990, he married Barbara Andruszkiewicz.
He had been a resident of Camarillo for 40 years and was retired from the municipal water district in Thousand Oaks.
He is survived by his wife.
No services are planned. Arrangements are under the direction of Pierce Bros. Griffin Mortuary in Camarillo.
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