Background
Son of January (John) Captain of the Russian Imperial Army.
Son of January (John) Captain of the Russian Imperial Army.
Evacuated to Turkey and Yugoslavia, he finished officers" school as a cavalry officer in 1923.
Major of the Polish Army: the commander of the last Tatar/Islamic unit in the Polish military. Between 1912-1919 he was a student at Corps of Cadets in Pskov, and later in Kiev. In 1924 and 1925, he was serving in the Serb border guards" unit, only to return to Poland in 1925.
The same year, he joined the Polish military and was sent to the Cavalry Officers" School in Grudziadz.
He became a professional (soldier) officer in 1928 in the "Zaniemianskich" ("Beyond Niemen River") 4th Regiment of Uhlans in Vilnius garrison. In 1938, he was transferred to the 13th Regiment of Wilno Uhlans "Wilenskich" ("From Vilnius") in Nowa Wilejka (at present part of Vilnius), where he was the commander of the 1st Tatar Squadron (1 Szwadron Tatarski).
The last mounted Tatar unit in the history of the Polish military. In 1939, he participated in the
In the first days of September, the 13th Regiment of Wilno Uhlans "Wilenskich" fought near Piotrkow.
Next, it crossed Vistula near Maciejowice.
Near Maciejowice on the 9th or 10 September, the Tatar squadron executed the last charge against German infantry. The very charge has become a symbol of the closing of the chapter in the history of the Polish military: the end of the last Islamic/Tatar unit Jeljaszewicz together with the few of his men who have not been dispersed tried to reach the Romanian Bridgehead, but was stopped, and spent the rest of the war in a German oflag.
lieutenant has to be noted that many individual Polish Tatars did escape the Germans and the Soviets, re—joined the Polish military.
And as of present form a community in Great Britain. One of them was recently investigated by two Jewish organizations because of charges of Anti-Semitism, but was found not guilty, and received official public apologies from both organizations, but not from the accuser.
He came back to Poland and lived in Gdansk. He worked in PZU. He was buried in the Islamic Tatar Cemetery in Warsaw.
Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum
Baruch Steinberg
Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer.
He was an active member of the local Tatar community paving the way for people like Professor Selim Chazbijewicz ("Mirza Selim Juszenski--Chazbijewicz" last part the clan name or the coat—of—arms" name), the main historian of the Polish Tatars.