2005/10/30
More on the Man Who Was at the Nazi Prison
Mr. Kowalczyk had a very hard time there. Every day, every decision, and every move he made was between death and living. But he had a good chance of secretly running away from Auschwitz, living, in 1942. After that he was with the secret Polish group against the Nazis.
After the war, he became a stage actor and manager, and he kept on working for peace, giving talks of his experience inside the wall, round the earth.
A Japanese page on Mr. Kowalczyk and Auschwitz:
An online page in Germany to keep the memory of the death houses, in English language:
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| August Kowalczyk, in 1940, was a young Polish man with a strong love for his country. He made an attempt of getting out of Poland to be with a Polish group secretly working against Adolph Hitler's political moves in France. He was taken by Nazi law-officers and sent, as the prisoner number 6408, to a walled place at Oswiecim. At the time Oswiecim, a Polish town, was under the rule of the Nazi military forces. So the town, and the prison, had a German name: Auschwitz.
Mr. Kowalczyk had a very hard time there. Every day, every decision, and every move he made was between death and living. But he had a good chance of secretly running away from Auschwitz, living, in 1942. After that he was with the secret Polish group against the Nazis.
After the war, he became a stage actor and manager, and he kept on working for peace, giving talks of his experience inside the wall, round the earth.
A Japanese page on Mr. Kowalczyk and Auschwitz:
An online page in Germany to keep the memory of the death houses, in English language:
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