Zygmunt Klukowski

Who was Zygmunt Klukowski?

Zygmunt Klukowski was a Polish physician, historian and bibliophile. Born in 1885 in Odessa, he spent much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn. He was the author of "Diary from the Years of Occupation, 1939-44" 371 pages, a detailed account of his experiences as a doctor in occupied Poland during World War II, and "Red Shadow: A Physician's Memoir of the Soviet Occupation of Eastern Poland, 1944-1956". These accounts were not published in English until 1993 and 1997 respectively and it is only recently that Klukowski has gained an international reputation as an important primary witness and chronicler of this period in Polish history. His descriptions of life under the Nazis cited are extensively by Richard J. Evans in "The Third Reich at War" amongst others.

Published by University of Illinois, 1993 Published by McFarland & Co, 1997