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Kazimierz Piechowski was born on 3 October, 1919 in Poland, is an engineer. Discover Kazimierz Piechowski's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 98 years old?
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He lived in Gdańsk. Piechowski died on 15 December 2017, aged 98.
Piechowski was the subject of the 2006 documentary film Uciekinier ("Man on the Run"), which was produced by Marek Tomasz Pawłowski and Małgorzata Walczak and won several international awards. In 2009, British singer Katy Carr released a song about Piechowski under the title "Kommander's Car". Another documentary from filmmaker Hannah Lovell was made in 2010 under the title Kazik and the Commander's Car.
He declined the Order of the White Eagle when Maciej Płażyński tried to award it to him after the democratic transition. In 1989, he sold land he owned near Gdańsk and traveled with his wife to various parts of the world, visiting over 60 countries. In 2006 Piechowski was named an honorary citizen of the city of Tczew, his pre-War hometown.
The prisoners abandoned the stolen escape vehicle in the vicinity of Maków Podhalański, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) from the camp. Piechowski eventually made his way to Ukraine, but was unable to find refuge there due to anti-Polish sentiment. He forged documents and took a false name before returning to Poland to live in Tczew, where he got captured. He soon found work doing manual labor on a nearby farm, where he made contact with the Home Army and took up arms against the Nazis within the units of 2nd Lt. Adam Kusz nom de guerre Garbaty (so-called "Cursed soldiers").
As a mechanic, he was often allowed to test drive cars around the camp. He entered the building and changed into an SS uniform like the others. They then all entered the car, with Bendera driving, Piechowski in the front passenger seat, Lempert and Jaster in the back. Bendera drove toward the main gate. Jaster carried a report that Witold Pilecki (deliberately imprisoned in Auschwitz to prepare intelligence about The Holocaust and who would not escape until 1943) had written for Armia Krajowa's headquarters. When they approached the gate it did not open.
He also had access to the list of upcoming executions, and saw that his friend, Eugeniusz Bendera [pl], was scheduled to be executed. The two men along with a third devised an escape plan. On the morning of 20 June, 1942, exactly two years after his arrival, Piechowski escaped from Auschwitz 1. He fled with Bendera, an auto mechanic from Czortków (now Chortkiv, Ukraine), Józef Lempert, a priest from Wadowice, and Stanisław Gustaw Jaster [pl], a first lieutenant and veteran of the Invasion of Poland from Warsaw. Piechowski, who had the best knowledge of the German language within the group, held command.
The Polish Boy Scouts were labeled as a criminal organization in Occupied Poland. Piechowski was among a transport of 313 other Polish deportees to Auschwitz on 20 June 1940; it was only the second transport after the initial one from Tarnów. Among this Tarnów group was another Pole who would escape in an SS officer's uniform: Edward Galinski. Galinski's escape was short-lived.
Both decided to leave Tczew on 12 November 1939 and attempted to get to France to join the Polish Army. While crossing the border into Hungary, they were captured by a German patrol. They were sent to a Gestapo prison in Baligrod before the group was transferred to a prison in Sanok, and then to Montelupich Prison in Kraków. Their last stop before Auschwitz was a prison in Wiśnicz.
After the collapse of Polish resistance to the German and Soviet invasion, Piechowski along with fellow boy scout Alfons "Alki" Kiprowski (born 9 October 1921), were captured by the German occupiers in their hometown of Tczew and forced into a work-gang, clearing the destroyed sections of the railway bridge over the Vistula, which had previously been blown up by the Polish military to impede Nazi transports. Polish Boy Scouts were among the groups targeted by the Gestapo and the Selbstschutz.
Kazimierz Piechowski (pronounced [kaˈʑimjɛʂ pjɛˈxɔfskʲi]; 3 October 1919 – 15 December 2017) was a Polish engineer, Boy Scout during the Second Polish Republic, and political prisoner of the Nazis held at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was a soldier of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) who again became a political prisoner under the post-war communist government of Poland for seven years.