Mathwar/Zarankiewicz Kazimierz
Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
Kazimierz Zarankiewicz (* May 2nd 1902 in Czestochowa, † September 5th 1959 in London) During World War II, Zarankiewicz took part in illegal teaching, forbidden by the German authorities, and eventually was sent to a concentration camp. He successfully survived and became a teacher at Warsaw University of Technology.
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Life
Zarankiewicz risked his life during the war teaching in the underground university which had been set up by the Poles in German occupied Warsaw to try to keep the intellectual life going.
Zarankiewicz paid dearly for teaching in the underground university for in 1944 he was sent to a labour camp in Germany. He survived this experience and returned to Warsaw at the end of the war in 1945. He resumed his teaching duties in 1946 at Warsaw Polytechnic. The long delayed decision to promote him to professor at Warsaw Polytechnic eventually took effect and, in 1948, he became a full professor. Also in 1948 he went to the United States for several months and taught at a number of universities including Harvard.