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


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About Zygmunt Klukowski

  • 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.

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