Stefan Bałuk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stefan Bałuk

Polish general, photographer and writer

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1914

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 30-Jan-2014

Profession: photographer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Stefan Bałuk

  • Stefan Klemens Baluk (15 January 1914 - 30 January 2014) was a Polish Military General, best known as one of the last surviving members of the Cichociemni paratroops. Baluk was born and died in Warsaw.
  • He attended Warsaw University during the mid 1930s, but as World War II broke out, Baluk enlisted in the Polish Military in 1939 and served under the 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade.
  • After undergoing training in the United Kingdom for several years, he fought through many campaigns until he was captured and imprisoned by the Communism Party in 1945.
  • Baluk was imprisoned for approximately two years until he was set free in March 1947.
  • Many years later, the 5th Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, awarded Baluk with the Order of Polonia Restituta.
  • For the remaining years of his life, Baluk took up professional photography as his career.
  • He died at the age of 100.

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