Tadeusz Wiejowski

Tadeusz Wiejowski (died 1941) was a Polish shoemaker who was the first person to escape the Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1941 he was recaptured and committed to the Jasło prison camp, where he was executed. His assigned number in the camp was 220. He escaped on 6 July 1940 with help from Polish civil workers employed in Auschwitz: Bolesław Bicz, Emil Kowalowski, Stanisław Mrzygłód, Józef Muszyński, and Józef Patek. Four of them were members of Związek Walki Zbrojnej, a Polish military organization. From the civil workers, Wiejowski received civilian clothing, food and money.

On 8 July 1940, Wiejowski's helpers were arrested and imprisoned in Auschwitz. Of the five Polish civil workers, only Bicz survived the war.

Wiejowski spent a year in Kołaczyce, where he lived secretly with family, but at the end of 1941 he was again arrested and imprisoned in Jasło, where he was executed.