Jan Mosdorf

Jan Mosdorf (born May 17, 1904 in Warsaw ; † October 11, 1943 in Auschwitz ) alias Andrzej Witowski was a Polish publicist , politician , philosopher , activist of the oboz Wielkiej Polski, leader of the student union All Polish Youth and National Radical Camp , prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp -Birkenau .

Life

Mosdorf completed his philosophy studies in 1928 and in 1934 defended his doctoral thesis on Auguste Comte with the philosopher Władysław Tatarkiewicz .

Mosdorf was the head of the nationalist student union All Polish Youth ( Związek Akademicki Młodzież Wszechpolska ). In the 1930s Mosdorf worked both as co-editor of the newspaper Sztafeta (Stafette) of the National Radical Camp ONR and with ONR member Stanisław Piasecki, Bolesław's brother and later editor of the Catholic magazine Prosto z mostu .

Mosdorf was the leader and ideologist of the National Radical Camp ( Polish : Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny , ONR), a nationalist movement that was banned in July 1934 because of its involvement in the boycott of Jewish companies and numerous violent riots against demonstrating workers, and which henceforth went underground acted. In Mosdorf's idea of an “original Poland”, other peoples and religions are supposed to be assimilated. Mosdorf managed to avoid a wave of arrests against the ONR.

In his article "Brzask Renesansu Katolickiego" ("The Splendor of the Catholic Renaissance", 1936) Mosdorf called for the return of young people to Catholicism , in his book "Wczoraj i Jutro" (1938) he turned against pacifism.

In June 1940 Mosdorf was arrested by the Gestapo and first imprisoned in Pawiak prison and then deported to Auschwitz . There he organized, together with Bolesław Świderski and Jerzy Ptakowski, a resistance cell that was politically assigned to the National Party ( Stronnictwo Narodowe ).

Mosdorf was born on October 11, 1943 along with a group of 53 other prisoners because of resistance activities against the SS shot .

Publications

Wczoraj i Jutro (Yesterday and Tomorrow), 1938

Web links

Stefan Korboński: Jews Under Occupation; University of Pittsburgh (en) ( Memento August 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ Piper, Franciszek and Świebocka, Teresa (editor): Auschwitz. National Socialist extermination camp. Ed .: State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, 2011, ISBN 978-83-88526-28-2 , p. 319 f.
↑ Grotum, Thomas: The digital archive. Development and evaluation of a database on the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Campus, Frankfurt / Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37481-1 , p. 282.

personal data
SURNAME	Mosdorf, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Andrzej Witowski
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish nationalist and Catholic
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH	October 11, 1943
Place of death	Auschwitz

[1] Piper, Franciszek and Świebocka, Teresa (editor): Auschwitz. National Socialist extermination camp. Ed .: State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, 2011, ISBN 978-83-88526-28-2 , p. 319 f.

[2] Grotum, Thomas: The digital archive. Development and evaluation of a database on the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Campus, Frankfurt / Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37481-1 , p. 282.