Andrzej Jan Wiktor Nowakowski (Wielkopolanin Nowakowski)Engineer
Born Brzesc nad Bugiem, Poland, 1925; son of Wiktor and Eugenia (Bydlinska) N.; married Jadwiga Zaleska, London, England, 1951; children: Victor, Henry, Monika.
Education: High School and liceum, Prince J. Poniatowski, Warsaw, Poland, degree, machine shop engineering, North Western Polytechnic, 1951. In California, engaged in defense industry as Senior Manufacturing Engineer.
Military: Polish Home Army at age of 16, noncommissioned officer, corporal; prisoner of German Gestapo, high security prison, "Pawiak," Warsaw (witnessed daily executions); with "Baszta" regiment, company Kl, fought Germans in Warsaw Uprising in 1944, wounded, taken prisoner of war to POW camp, Altengrabow in Germany (later transferred to camps Sandbostel and Lubeck); after liberation, joined Polish 2nd Army Corps in Italy where graduated from Officers Candidate School (Signals), 1946; demobilized in England 1948; advanced to rank of 2nd Lieutenant by the Polish Defence Ministry in London.
Awards: Krzyz Armii Krajowej; Warszawski Krzyz Powstanczy; Medal Wojska Polskiego; Odznaka Armii Krajowej; Odznaka Pulku Baszta.
Listed in publications: W Szeregach Baszty, Tadeusz Kubalski; Z Dziejow Liceum i Gimnazjum im. Ksiecia Jozefa Poniatowskiego, State Publication Institute, Warsaw 1981; Mokotow Walczy, by Eugeniusz Ajewski.
Member of: registered profesional engineer, State of California Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, Polish Resistance Forces Veterans Association, Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), Knights of Columbus, Polish Center, Los Angeles, Polish American Cultural Network (PACN), Samopomoc, Boy Scouts of America, Senior member of Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Resident: Monrovia, CA.
From: "Polish Americans in California, Vol. II," National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs & Polish American Historical Association. California 1995.