Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection Camp poetry Sachsenhausen poetry by Aleksander Kulisiewicz poems

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Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection Camp poetry Sachsenhausen poetry by Aleksander Kulisiewicz poems

Contains poetry by Aleksander Kulisiewicz concerning Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

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Kulisiewicz, Aleksander Tytus, 1918-1982

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Aleksander (Alexander) Kulisiewicz (1918-1982) was born in Kraków, Poland in 1918. He was a law student in German-occupied Poland when, in October 1939, he was denounced for antifascist writings, arrested by the Gestapo, and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin. An amateur singer and songwriter, Kulisiewicz composed 54 songs during more than five years of imprisonment at Sachsenhausen. After Russian troops liberated the camp on May 2, 1945, he remembered his songs, as well a...