August Kowalczyk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish actor, activist and Holocaust survivor
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Place of Birth: Tarnawa Góra, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland
About August Kowalczyk
- August Marian Kowalczyk (15 August 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a Polish actor, theatre, television and film director who was the last survivor of a breakout of prisoners from Auschwitz Concentration Camp on 10 June 1942. Born in Tarnawa-Góra, he was arrested on 4 December 1940 whilst trying to cross the border with Czechoslovakia to join the Polish Army in France and was then sent to Auschwitz where he laboured for I.G.Farben.
- After escaping from the camp with 9 other prisoners (13 died and 20 were recaptured), he hid in the forest and was sheltered in the attic of a house for 7 weeks in the village of Bojszowy.
- He then travelled under false documents to Silesia and Kraków, before becoming a soldier in the Armia Krajowa.On 9 November 1945 he made his debut as a stage actor in Kraków, performing with the Polish Theatre from Warsaw.
- He died of cancer, at age 90, on 29 July 2012 in Oswiecim, in a hospice he founded.He was married four times.
- He has two children, son Marek (born 1950), from his first marriage and son Marcin (born 1957), from his second marriage.
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