Henryk Świebocki
{{short description|Polish historian (born 1940)}}
Henryk Świebocki (born 1940) is a Polish historian. A senior custodian of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Świebocki specializes in the resistance movement within the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland during World War II.{{cite book | editor1-last = Gutman | editor1-first = Yisrael | editor2-last = Berenbaum | editor2-first = Michael | title = Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp | url = https://archive.org/details/anatomyofauschwi00yisr | url-access = registration | chapter = Contributors | pages = xiii–xiv | year = 1998 | orig-year = 1994 | publisher = Indiana University Press | location = Bloomington, IN | isbn = 0-253-32684-2}} He is the editor of London has been informed: Reports by Auschwitz escapees (1997);[http://auschwitz.org/en/bookstoreproducts/product/london-has-been-informed-reports-by-auschwitz-escapees,112.html#2 "London has been informed"]. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. author of The Resistance Movement, volume IV of Auschwitz 1940–1945 (2000);{{cite book |last=Świebocki|first=Henryk |editor-last1=Długoborski |editor-first1=Wacław |editor-last2=Piper |editor-first2=Franciszek |title=Auschwitz, 1940–1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp |volume=IV: The Resistance Movement |title-link=Auschwitz 1940–1945 |date=2000 |publisher=Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum |location=Oświęcim |isbn=978-8385047872 }} and editor of People of Good Will (2009).[http://auschwitz.org/en/bookstoreproducts/product/people-of-good-will,113.html#2 "People of Good Will"]. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
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Early life and education
Świebocki was born in Stary Sącz, Poland.{{cite book|editor-last1=Długoborski |editor-first1=Wacław |editor-last2=Piper |editor-first2=Franciszek |editor-link2=Franciszek Piper|title=Auschwitz, 1940–1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp| title-link=Auschwitz 1940–1945 |volume=V: Epilogue |date=2000 |publisher=Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum |location=Oświęcim |chapter=About the authors |pages=288–289 |isbn=978-8385047872}} His father, Karol Świebocki, was a member of Poland's Home Army who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner from 17 June 1942; he died on 10 August that year in a gas chamber in Auschwitz II–Birkenau,"Dedication" in {{harvnb|Świebocki|2000}}. one of a group of 193 sick prisoners in the camp hospital that the Germans decided to gas.{{cite book|last=Greif |first=Gideon |author-link=Gideon Greif |title=We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz |title-link=We Wept Without Tears |year=2005|publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, CT |isbn=978-0-300-13198-7 |pages=3, 336, note 9}} Świebocki's uncle, an artist, was also imprisoned in the camp, for three years, but he survived.{{cite news |last1=Minthorn |first1=David |title=Auschwitz Prison Art Works Going on German Tour |work=The Shreveport Journal |agency=Associated Press |date=31 August 1979 |page=37}}
A graduate of Jagiellonian University, Świebocki has a doctorate in history. He joined the Historical Research Department of the Auschwitz State Museum in 1964.
References
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External links
- [http://auschwitz.org/en/ Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum].
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Category:Historians of the Holocaust in Poland
Category:Jagiellonian University alumni
Category:People from Stary Sącz
Category:20th-century Polish historians