Wiktor Ormicki

Wiktor Ormicki (born ''Wiktor Rudolf Nusbaum'', 1898–1941) was a Polish geographer and cartographer, and a university professor. He was of Jewish descent. A specialist in economical geography and

demography Demography () is the statistics, statistical study of populations, especially human beings. Demographic analysis examines and measures the dimensions and Population dynamics, dynamics of populations; it can cover whole societies or groups ...

, he served at various posts in the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

, Wolna Wszechnica, Higher Trade School of Kraków and

Lwów University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

. Arrested by the Germans during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

Sonderaktion Krakau ''Sonderaktion Krakau'' was a German operation against professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University and other universities in German-occupied Kraków, Poland, at the beginning of World War II. It was carried out as part of the much bro ...

, he was murdered in the

Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen, Upper Austria, Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with List of subcamps of Mauthausen, nearly 100 further ...

. 1898 births 1941 deaths Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust Academic staff of Jagiellonian University Academic staff of the University of Lviv People who died in Mauthausen concentration camp Polish civilians killed in World War II Polish geographers Polish people executed in Nazi concentration camps Executed people from Lesser Poland Voivodeship Jewish scientists 20th-century geographers {{Poland-bio-stub