Sylwan

In memory of my grandfather. On November 11th 1941 Edward Sylwan Wyroba, a liaison officer in Poland's Home Army (Armia Krajowa), acting on his own accord, hung a Polish national standard on the 20-metre-high mast of Piłsudski's Mound in Kraków. The standard, mistakenly hanging with the red stripe to the top, fluttered for many hours over the occupied city. After the war, disclosed and arrested by Polish communist political police, Edward Wyroba served a three-year prison sentence.