Jozef Noji

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Plaque in memory of Józef Noji in his hometown of Pęckowo

Józef Noji (born September 8, 1909 in Pęckowo , Drawsko , † February 15, 1943 in Auschwitz ) was a Polish long-distance runner .

Athletic career

Olympics Berlin 1936, 5000 m, Józef Noji (middle, black pants), Gunnar Höckert (in the lead), Ilmari Salminen

Józef Noji was a trained carpenter and grew up in poor conditions as the youngest of four brothers. He started for the Club Syreny Warszawa and was next to Janusz Kusociński the best Polish long-distance runner in Poland in the 1930s. Five times in a row from 1935 to 1939 he was national champion in the 5000 meters , from 1936 to 1939 four times in a row cross-country champion , and in 1936 he won the title in the 10,000-meter run . In 1936 he started at the Olympic Games in Berlin . Over 5000 meters he finished fifth with the Polish record time of 14: 33.4 minutes and 14th over 10,000 meters. In the same year he won the international title of the British Amateur Athletic Association over six miles. In 1938 he was fifth in the 5000 meter run at the European Athletics Championships in Paris and set a national record over 10,000 meters with 31: 17.4 minutes.

In resistance

Historical building of the school in Drezdenko , which was named after Noji

Noji was of German descent and could therefore have been registered in the German People's List in the 1930s , which he strictly refused to accept. After the outbreak of World War II , he joined the Polish resistance . On September 18, 1940, he was arrested during a street raid and initially imprisoned in Pawiak prison in Warsaw . There he worked in the prison nursery and hoped to be released soon. However, after ten months he was transferred to Auschwitz . There he was executed in February 1943 by being shot in the neck in front of the Black Wall for allegedly smuggling a cashier .

Noji was posthumously awarded the Polish Cross of Valor. A street in Auschwitz is named after him, and several schools in Poland bear his name, including Drezdenko , which is 20 kilometers from Noji's birthplace.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 879.
  2. ↑ Gimnazjum nr 1 im. J. Nojiego w Drezdenku. (No longer available online.) Gim1drezdenko.pl, archived from the original on March 17, 2014 ; Retrieved March 16, 2014 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gim1drezdenko.pl
personal data
SURNAME Noji, Jozef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Pęckowo , Drawsko
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1943
Place of death Oświęcim