Stanisław Kłodziński

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Stanisław Kłodziński (born May 4, 1918 in Kraków ; † 1990 ibid) was a Polish pulmonologist , resistance fighter and prisoner doctor in Auschwitz .

Life

After finishing school in his hometown, Kłodziński began studying medicine at the Jagiellonian University . After the German occupation of Poland , he acted as a liaison between the main camp of Auschwitz and the Polish Red Cross from 1940 and, after consulting with the protective custody camp leader Karl Fritzsch , ensured that Polish prisoners could receive food parcels from their relatives. He also put u. a. illegal reports for the Polish resistance. Because of his activities, he was targeted by the Gestapo , who intercepted letters sent to him by the Polish resistance. He was arrested by the Gestapo on June 18, 1940 and imprisoned in Montelupich prison, from which he was transferred to the main camp of Auschwitz on August 12, 1941 and given prisoner number 20019. At first he was used as a prisoner for handicrafts. Around the turn of the year 1941/42 he was admitted to the prisoner infirmary and, after his recovery, was first employed as a prisoner nurse and finally as a prisoner doctor, where he treated sick prisoners. As an important member of the Auschwitz combat group , he and Józef Cyrankiewicz kept in constant contact with the Polish resistance in Krakow via Kassiber . After the war-related evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945, he was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp .

After the liberation from National Socialism , he finished his medical studies at the Jagiellonian University and then worked as a pulmonologist at the Pulmonology Clinic of the Krakow Medical Academy, where he received a doctorate in 1963 with a dissertation on tuberculosis. med. received his doctorate. He was a pioneer in research into the medical treatment of concentration camp survivors. With his brother-in-law Antoni Kępiński , he initiated a psychological examination of Auschwitz survivors in 1959 and also carried out pulmonary examinations on the subjects himself.

He was a co-founder and editor of the Auschwitz booklets. He wrote over 120 specialist articles and books on the subject of concentration camps, especially Auschwitz. After his retirement, he still advised Auschwitz survivors on medical and social issues. The counseling center for surviving inmates was in his Krakow apartment. He testified as a witness in May 1964 during the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.

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  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 221
  2. ↑ a b c d Hamburg Institute for Social Research (ed.): Die Auschwitz-Hefte , Volume 2; Hamburg 1994; P. 282.
  3. ↑ a b Alexander Goeb: breathless: more than a report book , Berlin 2010, p. 109f.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 221
  5. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt 1980, p. 291
  6. ↑ Adam Szymusik: The indelible traces of terror. Medical and psychiatric examinations of former concentration camp prisoners in the Cracow Psychiatric Clinic . In: Hans Stoffels (ed.): Fates of the persecuted. Psychological and somatic effects of the reign of terror , Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Barcelona, ​​Budapest 1991, ISBN 3-540-51942-4 , p. 33
  7. ↑ http://auschwitz-process.de/index.php
personal data
SURNAME Kłodziński, Stanisław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish medic, resistance fighter and prisoner doctor in Auschwitz concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH 1990
Place of death Krakow