Aleksander Kamiński

Aleksander Kamiński
ps. "Kamyk"
Born	January 28, 1903(1903-01-28) Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died	March 15, 1978(1978-03-15) (aged 75) Warsaw, Poland

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Aleksander Kamiński (January 28, 1903 - March 15, 1978) was a Polish school teacher, form tutor, author of Polish Cub Scout and Brownie method, writer, historian, Scoutmaster (harcmistrz), and wartime resistance leader under the codenames: Kamyk, Dąbrowski, J. Dąbrowski, Fabrykant, Faktor, Juliusz Górecki, Hubert, Kaźmierczak.

1 War service
2 Works
3 References
4 See also

War service

During the Second World War he served in the Armia Krajowa in the ranks of the Szare Szeregi, and as editor-in-chief of the Home Army's clandestine newspaper, Biuletyn Informacyjny.^[1] He was posthumously recognized as "Righteous among the Nations" by Yad Vashem on May 5, 1991.^[2]

Works

Kamienie na szaniec (1943);^[3] published in English as Stones for the Rampart (London, 1945), with a foreword by P. H. B. Lyon
Wielka Gra (1942, 1981)
Przodownik. Podręcznik dla kierowników oddziałów Zawiszy (cz. 1-2, December 1942, II 1943, III 1944)
Zośka i Parasol. Opowieść o niektórych ludziach i niektórych akcjach dwóch batalionów harcerskich
Antek Cwaniak (1932)
Książka wodza zuchów (1933)
Krąg rady (1935)
Narodziny dzielności
Andrzej Małkowski (1934)
Józef Grzesiak "Czarny"

References

^ George J. Lerski, review of Polish-Jewish Relations during the Second World War by Emmanuel Ringelblum, Joseph Kermish, Shmuel Krakowski, Dafna Allon, Danuta Dabrowska and Dana Keren, in The Catholic Historical Review 65:1 (1979), p. 98.
^ The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Poland, edited by Sara Bender and Shmuel Krakowski (2004).
^ Based on true events, described in Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon, The Labyrinth of Dangerous Hours: A Memoir of the Second World War (Toronto University Press, 2004), with a foreword by Norman Davies.

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Name	Kaminski, Aleksander
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Date of birth	January 28, 1903
Place of birth	Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Date of death	March 15, 1978
Place of death	Warsaw, Poland

Aleksander Kamiński

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War service

Works

References

See also