Zygmunt Klukowski

Zygmunt Klukowski (25 January 1885 – 23 November 1959) was a Polish physician, historian, and bibliophile. Born in 1885 in Odessa, he spent much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn. During World War II, he served in occupied Poland as officer of the underground resistance organizations, including Związek Walki Zbrojnej, and Armia Krajowa.

In the interwar Poland Klukowski was the editor-in-chief of two magazines, ''Teka Zamojska'' and ''Kwartalnik Regionalny'' in Zamość. Following World War II, he wrote two nominal works about his experiences, the ''Journal from the Years of Occupation of Zamojszczyzna, 1939–44'' (), a detailed account of his experiences as medical doctor in the General Government territory of occupied Poland during World War II, as well as the ''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. Only recently Klukowski has gained international recognition as an important primary witness and chronicler of the World War Two period in Polish historiography. His descriptions of life under the Nazis are cited extensively by Richard J. Evans in ''The Third Reich at War'', among other historians. Provided by Wikipedia