Jan Piwnik was born August 12, 1912 in the village of Janowice near Opatów. In 1933 he graduated from a reserve NCO artillery school in Włodzimierz Wołyński. In 1935 he joined the Polish police, where he served as an officer. Mobilized in 1939, in the Polish Defensive War he commanded a motorized unit of the police. After the Soviet aggression, on September 23 he and his unit crossed the Hun ...
