Stefan Bałuk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish general, photographer and writer
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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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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Stefan Baluk
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| Alternative names | "Kubus", "Starba" | ||
| Description | Polish officer, writer and photographer | ||
| Date of birth/death | 15 January 1914 | 30 January 2014 | |
| Location of birth/death | Warsaw | Warsaw | |
| Work period | from 1944 | ||
| Work location | Warsaw Uprising | ||
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- Stanislaw Podlewski () Rapsodia Zolibowska, Warsaw: PAX, pp. s. 176
- "Z falszywym ausweisem w prawdziwej Warszawie" S. Jankowski
- http://wilk.wpk.p.lodz.pl/~whatfor/foto.htm
License: PD Polish
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