Jerzy bielecki autobiography
Jerzy bielecki autobiography
Jerzy bielecki and cyla cybulska...
Jerzy Bielecki (Auschwitz survivor)
Jerzy Bielecki | |
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Bielecki in after he escaped from Auschwitz and joined the Home Army | |
Born | 28 March Słaboszów, Poland |
Died | 20 October () (aged90) Nowy Targ |
Occupation | Social worker |
Auschwitz survivor, Bielecki escaped to freedom with Cyla Cybulska in He became Head of postwar Christian Association of the Auschwitz Families. |
Jerzy Bielecki (28 March – 20 October ) was a Polish Catholic social worker, best known as one of the few inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp who managed to escape successfully.
With the help of other resistance members in the camp, he escaped in together with his Jewish girlfriend, who was an inmate of Auschwitz II. In Bielecki received the Righteous Among the Nations award.[1] He also co-founded and headed the postwar Christian Association of the Auschwitz Families.[2][3]
Biography
Bielecki was born in in Słaboszów, Poland.
A pupil at a gymnas