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Józef Augustyniak 1905 - 1940 Edit

Born 2.1.1905 in Nieszawa
Died 26.10.1940 in Gusen

Biography

Józef Augustyniak, born in Nieszawa (Kuyavia region, Greater Poland Voivodeship) in 1905, was a Polish teacher, educator and regional activist in Wola Krzysztoporska and Dobre from the late 1920s to 1939. He established a student cooperative in Dobre and was mentioned by the local press on numerous occasions, along with his wife. In the summer of 1940 – probably as part of the Intelligenzaktion or for his cooperation with the anti-German underground resistance movement – arrested by Gestapo in the part of German-occupied Poland that was directly incorporated into the Third Reich. He was then taken to Mauthausen. 

Józef Augustyniak was reported to have died in Gusen on the 26th of October 1940. The family only received a single letter from him, written in German (probably a formal requirement) and then a brief telegram about his death.

Józef probably had five siblings: Jan, Wiktoria, Anna, Marianna and Zofia. He was survived by his wife Helena (née Zarzycka, 19011971), also a teacher, and their two sons: Stanisław (19292000) and Janusz (19372019). Upon Józef’s arrest, they fled to Piotrków Trybunalski. He didn’t live to meet his grandchildren: Bogusław, Józef, Iwona, Jolanta and Anna, and his great-grandchildren: Agnieszka, Tomasz, Joanna, Anna and Christoph. 

 

Tomasz Augustyniak, great grandson (2025)

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