Kazimierz Piechowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kazimierz Piechowski

Polish resistance fighter

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1919

Place of Birth: Rajkowy, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 15-Dec-2017

Profession: engineer, political prisoner, resistance fighter, soldier

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Kazimierz Piechowski (pronounced [ka'?imj?? pj?'x?fsk?i]; 3 October 1919 – 15 December 2017) was a Polish engineer, a Boy Scout during the Second Polish Republic, a political prisoner of the German Nazis at Auschwitz concentration camp, a soldier of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) then a prisoner for seven years of the post war communist government of Poland. He was best known for his escape from Auschwitz I, along with three other prisoners, all dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, fully armed in a stolen SS staff car, in which they drove out the main gate—"a universally acclaimed...
[feat] of exceptional courage and gallantry", in the words of Kazimierz Smolen.