on 28 June 1948, in Osielec near Nowy Targ. After more than two years of brutal interrogation and torture in Warsaw's Mokotów Prison he was sentenced to death on 2 November 1950 by the Soviet-controlled court-martial in Warsaw. He was executed on 8 February 1951, together with several other Home Army soldiers. Szendzielarz was 40 years old. His body was buried in an undisclosed location. During a 2013 exhumation Szendzielarz's remains were recovered and identified as one of roughly 250 bodies buried in a mass grave at the Meadow at Warsaw's Powązki Military Cemetery. Posthumous history After Łupaszko's death, communist authorities accused him of many crimes, from the crimes against humanity to robbery and common theft. In 1988 Szendzielarz was posthumously promoted to rotmistrz and awarded the Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military decoration, by Kazimierz Sabbat, the President of Poland in exile. After the fall of communism, in 1993, Szendzielarz was rehabilitated and declared innocent of all charges. His exection, like those of other "cursed soldiers" was overturned as a Communist judicial crime. On 2007 Polish president Lech Kaczyński posthumously awarded Szendzielarz with the order of Polonia Restituta. Honours and awards Virtuti Militari, V class; for participation in the September 1939 campaign Cross of Valour (January 1944) Gold Cross, Virtuti Militari (25 June 1988) in recognition of outstanding deeds during the war Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, awarded by Polish President Lech Kaczynski, 11 November 2007 See also Paweł Jasienica List of Poles Danuta Siedzikówna References Further reading 1910 births 1951 deaths People from Stryi People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Polish Austro-Hungarians Polish Army officers Home Army members Cursed soldiers Recipients of the Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland) Polish anti-communists Grand Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta Executed military personnel Executed Polish people Polish torture victims People executed by the Polish People's Republic Polish People's Republic rehabilitations Polish people convicted of war crimes Burials at Powązki Military Cemetery