WW2 Rare Polish ID Card USSR (Autograph Tokarzewski Karaszewicz)

A rare identity card issued on 23rd July 1942 in Russia at an early stage of forming the Polish Army in the USSR. Document issued to Sergeant Lieutenant Piotr Wiertlewski, officer of the 6th Sapper Battalion, before the war an officer of the 4th Regiment of Zaniemeński Lancers.

After the defeat of the Defensive War of 1939, he was interned in Lithuania. After the annexation of Lithuania by the USSR, he was held from 13th July 1940 in the camp in Kozelsk, then Gryazowiec (Vologodzka). On 3rd September 1941, he reported to the Polish Army in Tatishchev.

Bilingual ID card in Polish, Russian and English. The ID card has two handwritten signatures of General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz.

General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz (1893–1964) was one of the most prominent officers of the Polish Army and a pioneer of the organized resistance movement during World War II. He fought in the Polish Legions and the Polish-Soviet War, and held key command positions in the interwar period. In September 1939, on behalf of the Polish government, he founded the Service for Poland’s Victory (Służba Zwycięstwu Polski) in occupied Warsaw—the first nationwide underground organization, which became the foundation of the Union of Armed Struggle and later the Home Army (Armia Krajowa). After leaving the USSR in 1942, he took command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Middle East. Following the war, he remained in exile, actively involved in pro-independence and veteran circles, and became a symbol of steadfastness and loyalty to the cause of a free Poland.

The identity card is in the condition as in the photos,

Few of the pages are loose.