Stanisław Grzesiuk (1918-1963) was a Polish writer, poet, comic and singer. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland He is notable as one of the few people to use and promote the folk-lore and dialect of Warsaw, almost extinct after the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The Warsaw dialect (called Gwara warszawska in standard Polish var'ʃafska}} is a regional dialect of the Polish language spoken in Warsaw. The Warsaw Uprising ( Powstanie Warszawskie) was a World War II struggle by the Polish Home Army ( Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Stanisław Grzesiuk was born May 6, 1918 in Małków near Chełm. Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Chełm (Холм Kholm) is a city in eastern Poland with 72595 inhabitants (2005 Early in his life his family moved to Warsaw's borough of Czerniaków, a distinct cultural area populated mostly by factory workers and other lower classes of the society. Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland. Czerniaków is a Neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw, located within the borough of Mokotów, between the escarpment of the Vistula river and After graduating from a local gymnasium he finished a trade school and started working as an electrotechnician for various enterprises. After the outbreak of World War II, in 1940 he was arrested by the Germans and sent to Germany as a slave worker. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. As a social-economic system slavery is a legal institution under which a Person (called "a slave" is compelled to work for another However, on April 4 of that year he was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Dachau was a Nazi German Concentration camp, and the first one opened in Germany located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions Factory near the Later sent to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Grzesiuk spent more than 5 years in German concentration camps. Mauthausen Concentration Camp (known from the summer of 1940 as Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp) grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps See also List of Nazi-German concentration camps, Extermination camp Prior to and during World War II, Nazi Germany under Hitler maintained
Liberated on May 5, 1945, he returned to Poland. Events 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins 1215 - Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Although he survived the Holocaust, his health never recovered and Grzesiuk suffered from serious tuberculosis, which eventually became the cause of his death. Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common After the war, Grzesiuk started documenting his pre-war and wartime experiences. In 1958 he debuted with Pięć lat kacetu (Five Years in Concentration Camps), a striking description of his stay in Nazi Germany during the war. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The following year he published Boso, ale w ostrogach (Barefoot but with spurs), a description of the pre-war life of Czerniaków, one of the most colourfull boroughs of Warsaw. Since then, he became known as the person to document the life of pre-war Warsaw in numerous songs, including the street ballads he became the best known for. A ballad is a Poem usually set to Music; thus it often is a story told in a Song. He also became known as a singer, as he took played a vital role in various Warsaw folk groups in the role of a songwriter, singer and banjo player. A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both The banjo is a Stringed instrument developed by enslaved Africans in the United States, adapted from several African instruments
In the 1960's he started his work on yet another novel, Na marginesie życia (On the Margin of Life), documenting his struggle against tuberculosis, as well as the Polish post-war welfare services. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Stanisław Grzesiuk died January 21, 1963 in Warsaw. Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. His last book was published posthumously the following year.