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Bronislav (also transliterated German-style as "Bronislaw") Kaminski was born in Vitebsk Governorate, the Russian Empire, now in Polotsk District, Belarus. His father was an ethnic Pole and his mother was an ethnic German (later termed Volksdeutsch in Nazi Germany). [ 2 ]
In October 1941, the Nazi Germany military advance into the Soviet Union reached Lokot area near the city of Bryansk and captured it on October 6, 1941. [11] In November 1941, an engineer at the local alcohol plant, Bronislav Kaminski, and a local technical school teacher, Konstantin Voskoboinik, approached the German military administration with proposals to assist them in establishing a ...
The Lokot Autonomy was ruled by a Russian civil administration led by Bronislav Kaminski and Konstantin Voskoboinik. [6] The German authorities established the Autonomy to serve as a test case for a Russian collaborating government under the SS in the proposed Reichskommissariat Moskowien. [9]
The Russian Liberation People's Army (Русская освободительная национальная армия, РОНА; in Latin, RONA), later reformed as SS Sturmbrigade "RONA" and nicknamed the "Kaminski Brigade" after its commander, SS-Brigadefuhrer Bronislav Kaminski, was a collaborationist force originally formed from a Nazi-led militia unit in the "Lokot Republic" (Lokot ...
S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A. (commanded by Bronislav Kaminski) Kampfgruppe Reinefarth (commanded by SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth) Sturmgruppe Dirlewanger (commanded by SS-Oberführer der Reserve Oskar Dirlewanger) Sturmgruppe Reck (commanded by Major Reck) Sturmgruppe Schmidt (commanded by Colonel Schmidt) various support and backup units
On 4 August 1944 at approximately 10:00, units of SS RONA commanded by Bronislav Kaminski entered Warsaw's Ochota district. The staff of RONA, having under its command 1,700 soldiers, set up their headquarters in a building of the Wolna Wszechnica Polska (Polish Free University) at 2A Opaczewska Street (today 2 Banacha Street), while the ...
Upon reaching Orel, Kursk, and Bryansk, the Nazis were greeted by the ardent anti-communist Bronislav Kaminski and his forces, who were actively fighting the Soviets. [53] His forces, known as the Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Narodnaya Armiya, Russian National Liberation Army , (RONA), was composed of Red Army deserters, anti-communist white ...
The Kaminski Brigade (Russian People's Liberation Army), led by SS-Brigadeführer Bronislav Kaminski. This collaborationist unit consisted mostly of Russians and Belarusians. After the uprising began, a storm regiment was formed from its soldiers under Major Ivan Frolov , composed of approximately 1,700 unmarried men.