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Jerzy Bielecki (28 March 1921 – 20 October 2011) was a Polish Catholic social worker, best known as one of the few inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp who managed to escape successfully.
- 28 March 1921, Słaboszów, Poland
- Social worker
- 20 October 2011 (aged 90), Nowy Targ
Oct 24, 2011 · Jerzy Bielecki was 19 years old, Roman Catholic and suspected of being a member of the Polish resistance when he was arrested by the Nazis in June 1940 and transported to Auschwitz, where the...
On June 27, 1985, Yad Vashem recognized Jerzy Bielecki as Righteous Among the Nations. Jerzy Bielecki, a Polish prisoner in Auschwitz, escaped from the death camp in July 1944 and saved his Jewish friend Tzila Cybulska by taking her with him.
Jul 21, 2010 · The 23-year-old Bielecki used his relatively privileged position as a German-speaking Catholic Pole to orchestrate the daring rescue of his Jewish girlfriend who was doomed to die.
During the winter of 1944, Jerzy decided to attempt to escape from Auschwitz. He begged Cyla to join him. “You are the only one left in your family,” he told her, “maybe I can save you.”
Oct 24, 2011 · Jerzy Bielecki, 90, a Polish inmate who led his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, died Oct. 20 at at his home in Nowy Targ, in southern Poland. His daughter, Alicja Januchowski,...
Jerzy Bielecki, born 1921, arrested by the Germans in May 1940. Deported to Auschwitz in the first transport of Polish political prisoners. In July 1944, he escaped in an SS uniform along with the Jewish woman prisoner Cyla Cybulska. After the escape, Cyla went into hiding with a Polish family, while Bielecki fought in a Home Army partisan unit.
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