Uncirculated silver, weight 112.57 g, dimensions 59.5 x 87 x 10 mm. Inside engraving: Tehran 10/X-1943 to Rudolf Zochna 17.4.1944.
The cigarette case belonged to Rudolf Olevich who was exiled in 1941 to Vorkuta in the north of the USSR. A year later he managed to join General Anders' army. In 1943 he found himself in Tehran. There he connected with Zofia Kleniewska, who gave him the presented cigarette case in April 1944.
Zofia Kleniewska was a nurse. Both of them, being in the structures of the 2nd Corps, participated in the Battle of Monte Casino, in which Rudolf Olewicz was seriously wounded. They got married a month after the end of the Battle of Monte Cassino.
After the war they settled in Great Britain, where they were active in Polish organizations.
