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Anczyc Władysław

Anczyc Władysław Marceli was born in 1894, he was a doctor of musicology and a pianist. He was a son of Anczyc Wacław, famous Krakow printer and historian, and he became the last one in Anczyc dynasty. He inherited the family business, printing house, in 1938, but in fact it was managed by Ferdynard Pieradzki. Władysław was mobilized to the army with the rank of captain in 1939. As a prisoner of war he was first taken to Starobielsk and then executed with almost 4 thousands Polish officers in Charkov in 1940. He is burried at Polish military cemetery in Charkov.

Anczyc Printing house

During the war conspiracy organizations were printing there fake documents to help Polish citizens and partisans. The building of the printing house was demolished in 1970, many valuable manuscripts and documents were lost forever.

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