Borderlands' Defence Committee

The Borderlands' Defence Committee (Polish: Komitet Obrony Kresów Wschodnich) was established in late November 1918 in Warsaw. It emerged from the so-called Lithuanian Committee, established in the same city in early 1917.

Borderlands' Defence Committee.Seated from left: Olgierd Gordziałkowski, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Mirosław Obiezierski, Michał Kossakowski. Also visible: Michał Obiezierski, Czesław Krasicki, Ignacy Witkiewicz, Władysław Marian Zawadzki [pl] (sitting 2nd from right), Wacław Wasilewski, Antoni Jundziłł, M. Parafianowicz, Czesław Krupski [pl], Mieczysław Boguszewski, Witold Pusłowski, Emanuel Obrąpalski

The Committee's office was in the Długa Street, Warsaw [pl].^[1]

It provided political patronage for the emerging volunteer military self-defense units of the pro-Polish Self-Defence of Lithuania and Belarus. One of its tasks was to campaign for their incorporation into the Polish Army through the creation of a Lithuanian–Belarusian Division. This goal was achieved on November 26, 1918, when Chief of State Józef Piłsudski agreed to the creation of such a division.^[2]

Władysław Raczkiewicz was the Committee's chairman.^[3]