Poland. After the capitulation of Warsaw to the Germans, he left the city along with civilians and managed to hide in the countryside, from where he continued his duties. In March 1945 he was arrested by the NKVD and taken to Moscow, where he was put on trial together with 15 other representatives of the Polish authorities. After three months of brutal interrogation and torture he was presented with the forged accusations of collaboration with Nazi Germany, sabotage, terrorism, planning a military alliance with Nazi Germany, owning a radio transmitter and several other trumped-up charges. He was sentenced to eight years in a Soviet prison and died there, probably murdered there on March 13, 1953, two weeks before the end of his sentence. His body was probably buried in the prison in Vladimir on Klyazma, though the whereabouts of his death, as well as the place of his burial remain classified. In addition to the Virtuti Militari (5th class) he received for his service in the Warsaw Uprising, in 1995 Jankowski was posthumously awarded the Order of the White Eagle. Note udskior.gov.pl References 1882 births 1953 deaths People from Wysokie Mazowieckie County People from Łomża Governorate Polish nobility National League (Poland) members National-Democratic Party (Poland) politicians National Workers' Party politicians Labor Party (Stronnictwo Pracy) politicians Government ministers of Poland Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1928–1930) Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1930–1935) Diplomats of the Second Polish Republic People of the Polish May Coup (pro-government side) World War II political leaders Polish people of World War II Polish people detained by the NKVD Polish deportees to Soviet Union Polish murder victims Polish people who died in Soviet detention Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)