need some help ID'ing this

kranz · 06-20-10, 12:35 PM

I will try to give word for word translation since going into some "fancy" equivalents wouldn;t do much good imo.

the medal(backside/reverse...): For taking part in a defensive war.(swords)Fatherland.(or motherland, simply your country)

the id:
Polska Rzecz.Ludowa=communist name of Poland
Legitymacja:kind of ID
Number....
Warsaw
30.11.1988
Uchwała Rady Państwa=By the resolution of "State Council"-it's like an organ who governed poland in the communist times.
Odznaczony/a= awarded, sth like that
Ob.=citizen, (in comm. times you had to title officials and u were titled by this "citizen" equivalent
Franciszek, son of Jan (proper names)
Medalem...=(awarded)with a medal for taking part in defensive war(same as on the medal)in 1939.
Przewodniczacy Rady Panstwa=simply the guy who was in charge of the State Council.

oh i just realized it won;t help much but...

ok, some thoughts about getting this medal so late: as u may know the soviets invaded us as well as the germans so after 1945 if u were no a member of "red-polish army" you couldn;t job etc. If you were a member of "right-side guerrilla" so called AK you were fcked up. Prisons, trials etc. Normally soldiers fighting during 1939 didn't get medals coz simply they were also fighting against the soviets. There were a few exceptions like the defenders of Westerplatte(on the polish coast, hit by Schlezwig-Holstein)-they were given "State" care after they returned from stalags and oflags etc. The key issue here is where that Franciszek Król, son of Jan fought.

06-20-10, 12:35 PM	#8
kranz The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Poland Posts: 1,430 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I will try to give word for word translation since going into some "fancy" equivalents wouldn;t do much good imo. the medal(backside/reverse...): For taking part in a defensive war.(swords)Fatherland.(or motherland, simply your country) the id: Polska Rzecz.Ludowa=communist name of Poland Legitymacja:kind of ID Number.... Warsaw 30.11.1988 Uchwała Rady Państwa=By the resolution of "State Council"-it's like an organ who governed poland in the communist times. Odznaczony/a= awarded, sth like that Ob.=citizen, (in comm. times you had to title officials and u were titled by this "citizen" equivalent Franciszek, son of Jan (proper names) Medalem...=(awarded)with a medal for taking part in defensive war(same as on the medal)in 1939. Przewodniczacy Rady Panstwa=simply the guy who was in charge of the State Council. oh i just realized it won;t help much but... ok, some thoughts about getting this medal so late: as u may know the soviets invaded us as well as the germans so after 1945 if u were no a member of "red-polish army" you couldn;t job etc. If you were a member of "right-side guerrilla" so called AK you were fcked up. Prisons, trials etc. Normally soldiers fighting during 1939 didn't get medals coz simply they were also fighting against the soviets. There were a few exceptions like the defenders of Westerplatte(on the polish coast, hit by Schlezwig-Holstein)-they were given "State" care after they returned from stalags and oflags etc. The key issue here is where that Franciszek Król, son of Jan fought. Last edited by kranz; 06-20-10 at 12:46 PM.