Stanisław Grzesiuk

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Stanisław Grzesiuk (1918-1963) was a Polish writer, poet, comic and singer. He is notable as one of the few people to use and promote the folk-lore and dialect of Warsaw, almost extinct after the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Stanisław Grzesiuk was born May 6, 1918 in Malkow near Chelm. Early in his life his family moved to Warsaw's borough of Czerniakow, a distinct cultural area populated mostly by factory workers and other lower classes of the society. After graduating from a local gymnasium he finished a trade school and started working as an electrotechnician for various enterprises. After the outbreak of World War II, in 1940 he was arrested by the Germans and sent to Germany as a slave worker. However, on April 4 of that year he was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Later sent to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Grzesiuk spent more than 5 years in German concentration camps. Liberated on May 5, 1945, he returned to Poland. Although he survived the Holocaust, his health never recovered and Grzesiuk suffered from serious tuberculosis, which eventually became the cause of his death. After the war, Grzesiuk started documenting his pre-war and wartime experiences. In 1958 he debuted with 'Piec lat kacetu' (Five Years in Concentration Camps), a striking description of his stay in Nazi Germany during the war. The following year he published Boso, ale w ostrogach (Barefoot but with spurs), a description of the pre-war life of Czerniakow, one of the most colourfull boroughs of

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