Zygmunt Rumel

Zygmunt Rumel

Zygmunt Jan Rumel (1915 – 10 July 1943) was a Polish poet and chef of the Wolhynia Region of the Bataliony Chłopskie. Rumel's poetic talent was acknowledged by a renowned Polish poet Leopold Staff, and author Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. One of his poems entitled "Dwie matki" (Two mothers) in which Rumel described his love of Poland and Ukraine, was published in a popular Płomyk magazine in 1935 (issue No. 28). He was killed during the Ukrainian Insurgent Army massacres of Poles in Volhynia in 1943.