Augustyn Suski

Augustyn Suski
Suski in the 1930s
Born(1907-11-08)8 November 1907
Szaflary, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
Died26 May 1942(1942-05-26) (aged 34)
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
NationalityPolish
Notable worksPoezja Młodego Podhala (1937)

Augustyn Suski (8 November 1907 – 26 May 1942) was a Polish Goral poet, pedagogue in the interwar period, and underground activist during World War II. Under the German occupation, Suski (nom-de-guerre Stefan Borusa) became a founder of the Polish resistance organization called Tatra Confederation (Polish: Konfederacja Tatrzańska), a.k.a. Confederation of the Tatra Mountains, operating in the Nowy Targ area of Podhale. He was murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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