Jerzy Tabeau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jerzy Tabeau

Polish cardiologist and resistance fighter

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1918

Place of Birth: Zabolotiv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 11-May-2012

Profession: cardiologist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Jerzy Tabeau

  • Jerzy Tabeau (18 December 1918 in Zablotów–11 May 2002) as an imprisoned Polish medical student was one of the first escapees from Auschwitz to give a detailed report to the outside world on the genocide occurring there.
  • First reports in early 1942 had been made by the Polish officer Witold Pilecki.
  • Tabeau's report was known as that of the "Polish major" in the Auschwitz Protocols.
  • After the war he became a noted cardiologist in Kraków.Tabeau was a member of the Union of Armed Struggle, Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej (ZWZ) and had worked in the Polish underground under the pseudonym "Jerzy Wesolowski" in Kraków, distributing underground press.
  • He was captured and taken to the Gestapo's Montelupich Prison in Kraków.
  • On 26 March 1942 he was transferred to Auschwitz, and - still under his false name - registered under the number 27273.
  • He soon fell ill with pneumonia and pleurisy, and was placed in the camp hospital.
  • After recovering he joined the hospital staff as a male nurse.
  • In the summer of 1942 he came down with typhus and was selected by Nazi doctor Dr.
  • Josef Klehr to be included in the list of patients to be killed in the gas chambers.
  • However, thanks to the intervention by the Polish block elder, Alfred Stossel, he managed to escape death.Tabeau escaped with another Polish inmate, Roman Cieliczko, on 19 November 1943.
  • The escape was pre-planned in July 1943 and originally intended to include five prisoners escape.
  • As Cieliczko was in the camp under his given name, not a pseudonym, it was essential to first warn Cieliczko's mother in Zakopane to go into hiding.
  • Escapees' relatives were often captured in reprisal.
  • On 14 July 1943 a message was sent to Cieliczko's mother to go into hiding.
  • Tabeau and Cieliczko escaped by cutting through the camp's wire fence.
  • They made their way to the village of Goczalkowice where local Resistance welcomed them, then continued on to Zakopane and stayed with friends of Cieliczko.
  • Tabeau boarded a freight train to Kraków, while Cieliczko joined a partisan unit but was killed by German troops in a sabotage operation three months later.
  • Tabeau contacted Teresa Lasocka-Estreicher, and later joined the underground Kraków PPS.
  • In December 1943 Tabeau proceeded to prepare a report about the camp.
  • The work was completed in early 1944. In March, on orders of the Underground, he left Kraków on a mission to London to give testimony in person about the Polish resistance and confirm to the Allies the truth about the Nazi genocide.
  • The journey took place without incident.
  • After returning to Poland he went to the Nowy Sacz area to form a "Socialist Death Battalion." During one of the battles near Jordanów in October 1944 Tabeau was wounded in the head, leaving him partially paralysed.
  • However he lived to see the end of the war.
  • After 1945 he settled in Kraków, completing his medical studies and graduating from the Jagiellonian University.
  • He became an assistant professor of Medicine, and a well-known cardiologist in Kraków.

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