Zygmunt Klukowski Explained

Zygmunt Klukowski
Birth Place:Odessa, Russian Empire
Death Place:Szczebrzeszyn, Polish People's Republic
Known For:Journal from the Years of Occupation
Occupation:Medical doctor
Nationality:Polish
Awards:Silver Laurel of the Polska Akademia Literatury (1937), Gold Cross of Merit (1937, 1948), Order of Polonia Restituta (1958)

Zygmunt Klukowski (25 January 1885 – 23 November 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 Związek Walki Zbrojnej, and Armia Krajowa.

In the interwar Poland Klukowski was the editor-in-chief of two magazines, Teka Zamojska and Kwartalnik Regionalny in Zamość. 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),[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

Publications (1925–2007)

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Zygmunt . Klukowski . Andrew . Klukowski . Helen May. Klukowski. Diary from the Years of Occupation 1939–44 . University of Illinois Press . 1993 . 978-0-252-01960-9.
  2. Book: Zygmunt . Klukowski . Andrew . Klukowski. Red Shadow: A Physician's Memoir of the Soviet Occupation of Eastern Poland, 1944–1956 . McFarland & Co. . 1997 . 0-7864-0328-4.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20071010040739/http://www.klukowski.webpark.pl/ Official website. Zygmunt Klukowski. Introduction.