Village of Studzianki
in Mazowieckie Voivodship (east-central Poland). Kazimierz
Wajszczuk died here in battle as a tank
comander in 1944.
Studzianki, since
1969 Studzianki Pancerne ("Armored"), a village in the Mazowieckie
Voivodship, on the Radomka
and Nurzec rivers. Approximately 210 inhabitants (1884). During WWII, the
site of a battle which took place 9-16 VIII 1944
between the 1st (Polish) Armored Brigade named after the Heroes of
Westerplatte and the Soviet 8th Guard Army against
two German Panzer Divisions and a Grenadier Division. This was a deciding
battle for maintaining the Warka-Magnuszew
bridge-head, in its course the 1st Brigade destroyed approx. 40 tanks and
armored guns, 9 armored transporters, 26 artillery
pieces and mortars and captured a battery of guns. The Germans also
suffered significant manpower losses.
(also -
http://sirkamyk.republika.pl/miasta/studzian.htm) - (...) (During the
battle) The village changed hands several times (the road crossing in
Studzianki had to be re-captured by the Polish soldiers no less than 7
times! (...) Polish losses included 18 burned out and destroyed tanks and
9 damaged. (...) After the war the village was rebuilt. (...) In 1964 (on
the 20th anniversary of the battle) a monument-mausoleum was unvailed on
the outskirts of the village, designed by an architect Narcyz Szwejdzinski,
in collaboration with Wlodzimierz Skolimowski. Its main accent is a tank
No. 217 - the first polish tank, which entered the village.