Iwo cyprian pogonowski biography channel

Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (born 3 September 1921 in Lwów, Poland; died 21 July 2016) was a writer and inventor with 50 patents to his credit; a civil and industrial engineer by profession, educated in Poland, Belgium and United States. He is also a non-fiction writer on Polish and European history, author of historical atlases, and lexicographer.

Dictionaries that Pogonowski has compiled include the 1990 Polish-English, English-Polish Standard Dictionary, reprinted in 1993, 1994 and 1997.

After the invasion of Poland in World War II, in December 1939 Pogonowski, aged 18, left Warsaw, Poland with the intention of joining the Polish Armed Forces in the West.

He was arrested in Dukla by the German authorities on suspicion of aiming to join the resistance.

Jews in Poland, A Documentary History : Pogonowski, Iwo ...

He was moved between prisons and camps for five years thereafter. Interned at the Krosno, Jasło, and Tarnów prisons among others, he was sent with 500 prisoners to Auschwitz, and from there to Oranienburg-Sa Iwo Pogonowski Obituary (1921 - 2016) - Bradenton, FL ... VIM