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KOZAKIEWICZ Jan Andrzej
ppor.
12460
27.1.1923 Żerań p. Warszawa 
1. Pol.Dyw.Panc.
24. P.Uł.
15.4.1945, Oberlangen, Stalag VII C, Germany 
Roman Catholic Cemetery at Barger-Oosterveld, the Netherlands
Breda, the Netherlands, Polish War Cemetery
E.5.2.

Out of the Regimental History of 24 Pułk Ułanów, page 378:
On April 15, 1945 everybody who was able to do it, went to the women's
Prisoner-of-War Camp at Oberlangen in Germany to look for relatives and
acquaintances or to get information about them. Many succeeded in doing
so, others were disappointed or made new contacts, but lieutenant Jan
Kozakiewicz's fate was most tragic - he was looking for his sister in 
the camp.

He had already searched part of the camp and in a jeep, driven by 
lieutenant Kaczanowski, he was on his way to another part of the camp. 
By some unknown reason the car landed in a ditch. Lieutenant Kozakiewicz
was killed immediately and lieutenant Kaczanowski was wounded.

The news about the accident spread all over the camp as quick as lightning
and reached lt. Kozakiewicz's sister. She recognized his mortal remains in
the sick-bay of the camp.

Lieutenant Kozakiewicz's sister was present in the camp during his search, 
be it under another name, because she married during the war and
changed her name. This new name wasn't known by her brother.
So far the Regimental History.

In spite of the description above, it is proved by a letter, written by his 
brother Witold Kozakiewicz in 2004, that his brother Jan find their 
sister, but that he was deadly wounded in an accident after finding her.

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