Sat Okh
Sat Okh ( Lange Feder ), bourgeois Stanisław Supłatowicz (born around April 15, 1920 or 1925 in Canada, † July 3, 2003 in Danzig ) was a Polish resistance fighter and writer.
According to his own account, he was the son of a Shawnee Indian and a Polish mother, was born in Canada in 1920 , and came to Poland with his mother in 1937.
After the outbreak of World War II , he was arrested by the Germans. During the transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp , he escaped, fought in the Polish Home Army against the German occupation and after the war settled under the name Stanisław Supłatowicz. At first he worked as a sailor , from 1958 he began to write books about the life of the Indians , some of which were also published in German. He died in Gdansk in 2003 .
Works
- The Land of Salt Rocks (Berlin 1965)
- together with A. Rassulowa: The Secret of Old Sagamora (Berlin 1981)
Web links
- "Sat-Okh the Museum in Poland"
- Literature by and about Sat Okh in the catalog of the German National Library
Footnotes
- ^ Website of the Sat Okh Indian Museum , Stanisław Supłatowicz SAT-OKH (Długie Pióro) , accessed on April 16, 2016
- ↑ Inscription on the tombstone Sat Okh in the Srebrzysko cemetery in Gdansk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sat Okh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Supłatowicz, Stanisław (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish resistance fighter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 2003 |
| Place of death | Danzig |