Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921-1944), born in Warsaw, the son of the critic Stanisław Baczyński, a socialist and former legionnaire, and of Stefania Zieleńczyk, a schoolteacher and author of textbooks, had from childhood a weak heart and asthma. A pupil at the Stefan Batory lycée, for a time close to the socialist youth, he studied literature at the clandestine university, married Barbara Drapczyńska in 1942, attended the clandestine officers' school Agricola and served in the Zośka and then Parasol battalions of the Home Army. He was killed at the Blanka palace, on the fourth day of the uprising, on 4 August 1944.

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• PoetryZamknięty echemKrzysztof Kamil Baczyński · 1940not translated into EnglishLiterature