Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish boxer
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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Tadeusz Pietrzykowski
- Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski (born 8 April 1917 in Warsaw, died 17 April 1991 in Bielsko-Biala) was a Polish boxer, Polish Armed Forces soldier, and a prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Neuengamme concentration camps during World War II.
- He was part of the first mass transport to Auschwitz in June 1940, and was transferred to Neuengamme in 1943.
- Parts of Pietrzykowski's life served as the basis for a story written by Jozef Hen (Bokser i smierc) and a film by Peter Solan (Boxer a smrt).
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