page_title: Jan Rodowicz
section_title: Post-war period
hierarchical_section_title: Jan Rodowicz / Biography / Post-war period
caption_attribution_description: English: Grave of Col. Jan Rodowicz 'Anoda'
context_page_description: Jan Rodowicz, alias "Anoda", was a scout, soldier of the Grey Ranks, the Home Army and of the Armed Forces' Delegation, lieutenant.
context_section_description: After a long treatment in the Otwock hospital, Rodowicz came to his family in Milanówek at the beginning of 1945. There, he established a contact with his former colleagues from the "Zośka" Battalion, who survived the Warsaw Uprising, including Henryk Kozłowski "Kmita", former acting commander of the 1st company "Maciek". Thanks to him, Rodowicz became the commander of the dispatch unit of the Head of the Central District of the Delegation of the Armed Forces, Colonel J. Mazurkiewicz. Rodowicz led propaganda campaigns against the communist government, gathered information on public security offices, prisons and protected briefings of the DAF command.
  In August 1945, after the dissolution of the DAF and his unit, Rodowicz hid some of the weapons. He then moved to Warsaw, where his family received an apartment. He took care of former soldiers of the "Zośka" Battalion, exhumations and funerals of killed comrades in the Powązki Cemetery and also created designated insurgent quarters. On September 19, as a result of the call of Col. J. Mazurkiewicz, Rodowicz revealed himself in front of the Liquidation Committee of the former Home Army Central District. He worked briefly in the office of the Liquidation Committee. Rodowicz used this time to prepare, with the help of his colleagues from the "Zośka" Battalion, lists of fallen and missing soldiers of the Battalion. He also initiated the creation of the "Zośka" Battalionon Archives. He encouraged and persuaded his colleagues to look for and secure historical materials about the unit and write memoirs. In the autumn of 1945, Rodowicz began studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology, after which he moved to the second year of the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1947.
  On 24 December 1948, Rodowicz was arrested by officers of the Ministry of Public Security, who were commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Wiktor Herer, Head of the Department IV at the Department V of the Ministry of Public Security. Rodowicz died on 7 January 1949 during a brutal investigation at the Ministry headquarters at Koszykowa Street. According to the prosecutor and the Security Office, the reason for his death was a suicide jump from the window on the fourth floor of the building. It is possible that he was thrown out of it, or murdered in some other circumstances. On 12 January 1949, his body was secretly transported to a funeral facility and then anonymously buried at the Powązki Cemetery. His family was not notified of his death until March 1. On March 16, the family was informed by the gravedigger about the burial place and exhumed the body. The coffin was placed in a family grave at Stare Powązki.
  A symbolic grave is also located in the "Łączka" quarters of the Military Cemetery in Warsaw.
caption: Jan Rodowicz's grave at the Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw
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