Mathwar/Wazewski Tadeusz
Tadeusz Wazewski
Tadeusz Wazewski (* September 24th 1896 in Galicia, † September 5th 1972)
Life
Kraków was taken by the German army at the beginning of World War II. A German governor was installed in Wawel Castle, and executions members of the teaching staff of the Jagiellonian University took place. Some 55,000 Jews from the city were sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Wazewski was sent to the Sachsenhausen- Oranienburg concentration camp north-west of Berlin where he survived for two years. Some were not so lucky, for example A Hoborski was a mathematics professor at the Jagiellonian University who died in the Sachsenhausen- Oranienburg concentration camp in February 1940.
Wazewski returned to Kraków and taught in the underground university there despite the severe risk to his life. In 1945 Kraków was liberated in a surprise attack made by Soviet forces. Wazewski was appointed a full professor at the Jagiellonian University and put all his efforts into restoring the educational system which had been destroyed.