Henryk Świebocki (born 1940) is a Polish historian. A senior custodian of the

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum ( pl, Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) is a museum on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim (German: ''Auschwitz''), Poland. The site includes the main concentration camp at Auschwi ...

, Świebocki specializes in the

resistance movement A resistance movement is an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to withstand the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability. It may seek to achieve its objective ...

within the Auschwitz concentration camp in

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during

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. He is the editor of ''London has been informed: Reports by Auschwitz escapees'' (1997); author of ''The Resistance Movement'', volume IV of ''

Auschwitz 1940–1945 ''Auschwitz 1940–1945: Central Issues in the History of the Camp'' is a five-volume monograph about the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. Written by researchers at the Auschwitz-Birken ...

'' (2000); and editor of ''People of Good Will'' (2009). __TOC__

Early life and education

Świebocki was born in Stary Sącz, Poland. His father, Karol Świebocki, was a member of Poland's

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who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner from 17 June 1942; he died on 10 August that year in a gas chamber in Auschwitz II–Birkenau, one of a group of 193 sick prisoners in the camp hospital that the Germans decided to gas. Świebocki's uncle, an artist, was also imprisoned in the camp, for three years, but he survived. A graduate of Jagiellonian University, Świebocki has a doctorate in history. He joined the Historical Research Department of the Auschwitz State Museum in 1964.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Świebocki, Henryk 1940 births Historians of the Holocaust in Poland Jagiellonian University alumni People from Stary Sącz 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Living people