Jerzy Bitschan (November 29, 1904 – November 21, 1918) was one of the youngest Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 defenders of Lwów, over which in late 1918 a Polish-Ukrainian conflict

Battle of Lwów (1918)

Battle of Lviv begun on 1 November 1918 and lasted till May 1919 and was a six months long conflict between the forces of the West Ukrainian People's Republic and local Polish civilian population assisted later by regular Polish Army forces for the control...

 ensued.

Bitschan was only 14 years old, when on November 21, 1918, he died from Ukrainian shells, exploding on the Łyczakowski Cemetery. Between November 20 and November 21, 1918, he guarded the Cemetery, fighting the Ukrainians. His mother, Aleksandra Zagorska

Aleksandra Zagórska

Lt. Col. Aleksandra Zagórska, primo voto Bitschan, secundo voto Zagórska, aka Aleksandra Bednarz – Lieutenant Colonel of Polish Armed Forces, soldier of Legions, organizer and commandant of Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet, independence activist.In 1904 she enrolled at Jagiellonian University...

, creator of Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet

Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet

Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet was a voluntary Polish paramilitary organization, created by women in Lwów in late fall of 1918...

, also participated in the conflict, but in a different location. Bitschan was buried on the Cemetery of Defenders of Lwów, after his death several poems dedicated to him were written.