Marian Zgórniak (5 December 1924 – 18 November 2007) was a Polish historian, survivor of the KL Auschwitz, KL Gross-Rosen and KL Buchenwald.
Biography He came from a landed gentry family, the son of Stanisław Zgórniak and Władysława. Review: He grew up in Gorlice. During the Nazi occupation of Poland he learned in clandestine education and got involved in the resistance movement as a soldier of Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army. On 2 June 1942 he was arrested by Gestapo.
In 1946 he passed matura.
He worked at the Jagiellonian University. He was elected a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He supervised eighteen doctoral dissertations.
His son Marek Zgórniak became an art historian, professor at the Jagiellonian University.
Works
Co-authored with Grzegorz Mazur and Wojciech Rojek.
Editions
Co-edited with M. Cieplewicz.
Accolades Silver Cross of Merit with Swords (1944) Cross of the Home Army (1970) Gold Cross of Merit (1973) Medal of the Commission of National Education (1976) Auschwitz Cross (1988) Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2003) Honorary Citizen of Gorlice
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