Gwidon Damazyn

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Gwidon Damazyn (born October 21, 1908 in Bydgoszcz , † October 16, 1972 in Warsaw ) was a Polish electrical engineer , resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp and member of the Polish military section of the IMO .

Life

Damazyn had received training as a radio technician. After the beginning of the Second World War , Damazyn offered resistance to the German occupation as a partisan. Damazyn was arrested in 1940 and sent to Warsaw's Pawiak prison. In March 1941 he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp deported , where he belonged to the electrician command. In Buchenwald concentration camp he participated in the prisoner resistance . As an expert in radio technology, he dealt with the construction of shortwave receivers that could illegally receive messages from the front . Knowledge of the advance of the Allied armies strengthened the prisoners' internal resistance. In 1943, Gwidon Damazyn built his own receiver for the management of the International Military Organization , which was installed in the head of the IMO Heinrich Studer's camouflaged bed. A Morse device was built by him, with the International Camp Committee (ILK) on 8 April 1945, the US Army of General Patton a call for help deposed because of the impending prisoner-deportation by the SS . The radio operator Damazyn, like some of the heads of the IMO, recalled having received a radio message calling on the inmates to hold out.

After the Nazi regime was eliminated, Damazyn returned to Poland , where he worked as an electrical engineer. On October 13, 1946 he was elected to the board of the Polish Association of Radio Amateurs ( Polski Związek Krótkofalowców ).

literature

  • Fluorescent Lamp: Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia . 2013 ( thewaythetruthandthelife.net [accessed July 27, 2018]).
  • Emil Carlebach / Willy Schmidt / Ulrich Schneider (eds.): Buchenwald a concentration camp. Reports - Pictures - Documents , Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-89144-271-8 .
  • Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports , Berlin 1983, p. 754.
  • Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937 - 1945 , volume accompanying the permanent historical exhibition, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-89244-222-6 .
  • Harry Stein: Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. A Guide to the Permanent Historical Exhibition , Wallstein Verlag Göttingen 2010, ISBN 3-89244-695-4
  • Hans-Joachim Hartung: Signals through the death fence , Verlag Technik, Berlin, 1974.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937 - 1945 , Göttingen 1999, p. 296.
  2. ↑ Author collective ... p. 591.
personal data
SURNAME Damazyn, Gwidon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish engineer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bydgoszcz
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1972
Place of death Warsaw