Name Zygmunt Klukowski | Role Physician Died 1959 | |
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Known for Journal from the Years of Occupation Awards Silver Laurel of the Polska Akademia Literatury (1937), Gold Cross of Merit (1937, 1948), Order of Polonia Restituta (1958) Books Diary from the years of occupation, 1939-44 | ||
Zygmunt Klukowski (23 January 1885 - 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), 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. 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.
Publications (1925 – 2007)
