Our Patrons

Their sabotage activities, however dangerous and difficult to discover, but important from the point of view of the resistance movement, were the matter of intentional breaking of locomotives and other machines. Locomotives often broke hundreds of kilometers from Karsznice, in far distant time from the sabotage.

They were arrested in December 1942, and executed on 25th February, 1944.

The 25th of February was established as the day of school patrons.

Germans gathered about 2000 inhabitants of the housing estate in Karsznice and the neighbouring villages, in order to watch the execution that aimed at sending a warning to the supporters, as well as members of the conspiracy.

The memory regarding conspiratorial activity of the railway men from Karsznice, whose symbol became the heroic sacrifice of Sylla and Kałużewski, is especially alive among the inhabitants of the housing estate. Nowadays, locomotive-shed in Karsznice is the place containing the monument commemorating the event.
The second monument is placed in the centre of the housing estate, and, every year, on 25th February, the citizens of Karsznice pay tribute to the victims. Moreover, one of the streets in Karsznice was named after the heroes.

Functioning in this local community, our school aims at cultivating the tradition and emphasizing its value adopting the names of the heroic railway men.