Zygmunt Klukowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zygmunt Klukowski

Polish physician, historian, and bibliophile

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1885

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1959

Profession: physician, historian

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Zygmunt Klukowski (23 January 1885–1959) was a Polish physician, historian and bibliophile.
Born in 1885 in Odessa, he spent much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn.
During World War II, he served in occupied Poland as officer of the underground resistance organizations, including Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej, and Armia Krajowa.In the interwar Poland Klukowski was the editor-in-chief of two magazines, Teka Zamojska and Kwartalnik Regionalny in Zamosc.
Following World War II, he wrote two nominal works about his experiences, the Journal from the Years of Occupation of Zamojszczyzna, 1939–44 (Polish: Dziennik z lat okupacji Zamojszczyzny 1939–1944), a detailed account of his experiences as medical doctor in the General Government territory of occupied Poland during World War II, as well as the Red Shadow: A Physician's Memoir of the Soviet Occupation of Eastern Poland, 1944–1956.
These accounts were not published in English until 1993 and 1997 respectively.
Only recently Klukowski has gained international recognition as an important primary witness and chronicler of the World War Two period in Polish historiography.
His descriptions of life under the Nazis are cited extensively by Richard J.
Evans in The Third Reich at War, among other historians.