Tadeusz Wiejowski

Who is Tadeusz Wiejowski?

Tadeusz Wiejowski was a Polish shoemaker, and victim of Nazism.

Tadeusz Wiejowski was imprisoned in Auschwitz on 14 June 1940, his number was 220. He escaped on 6 July 1940 with help from Polish civil workers employed in Auschwitz, Bolesław Bicz, Emil Kowalowski, Stanisław Mrzygłód, Józef Muszyński i Józef Patek. Four of them were members of Związek Walki Zbrojnej, Polish military organization. Wiejowski received from them civil clothes, food and money and ran away by train.

On 8 July 1940, Wiejowski's helpers were arrested and imprisoned in Auschwitz. They died there; only Bolesław Bicz survived the war.

Wiejowski spent a year in Kołaczyce, where he lived secretly with family. But at the end of 1941 he was again arrested and imprisoned in Jasło, where he was killed.