Kazimierz Smoleń

Kazimierz Smoleń (19 April 1920 – 27 January 2012) was a Polish political prisoner of the Nazi World War II KZ Auschwitz (Auschwitz concentration camp), and later a long-term director of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Biography Smoleń was a law student when he was arrested by the Gestapo on 15 April 1940 for his activity in the Polish conspiracy in Chorzów and an attempt to join the Polish army abroad. On 6 July 1940 he was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp with one of the first transports of Polish political prisoners to arrive from prison in Sosnowiec.

Smoleń was given the KZ Auschwitz number 1327, and at first was given work in the construction workgang; then he worked as a writer in the camp's administration office. and then to Ebensee concentration camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

Smoleń came back to Poland after the war and studied law at the Catholic University of Lublin.