SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Franciszek Gajowniczek

1901 - 1995

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Franciszek Gajowniczek (15 November 1901 – 13 March 1995) was a Polish army sergeant whose life was saved at the Auschwitz concentration camp by Catholic priest Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in his place. Gajowniczek had been sent to Auschwitz concentration camp from a Gestapo prison in Tarnów. He was captured while crossing the border into Slovakia after the defeat of the Modlin Fortress during the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. Gajowniczek survived the war and afterward became a lay missionary, dedicating his life to spreading the story of Kolbe's sacrifice. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franciszek Gajowniczek is the 235th most popular social activist (down from 216th in 2019), the 414th most popular biography from Poland (down from 375th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Franciszek Gajowniczek ranks 235 out of 840. Before him are Sophia Perovskaya, Sergey Taboritsky, Gloria Steinem, Bernard II, Duke of Saxony, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, and Mordechai Vanunu. After him are Nimr al-Nimr, Marina Ginestà, Harro Schulze-Boysen, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Vandana Shiva, and Juliana of Stolberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Franciszek Gajowniczek ranks 98. Before him are Hermann Priess, Stella Adler, Henri Cochet, Miklós Nyiszli, Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, and Margarete Buber-Neumann. After him are Hellmuth Stieff, René Pleven, Gino Cervi, Syama Prasad Mukherjee, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Sid Atkinson. Among people deceased in 1995, Franciszek Gajowniczek ranks 90. Before him are Pancho Gonzales, Peter Townsend, Godfrey Brown, Václav Neumann, Theodor Wisch, and Elisha Cook Jr.. After him are Ann Dunham, Arturo Frondizi, James Herriot, Annie Fischer, Morarji Desai, and Gabriel Urgebadze.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Franciszek Gajowniczek ranks 414 out of 1,694. Before him are Jacek Malczewski (1854), Oskar R. Lange (1904), Horst Mahler (1936), Wilhelm Brasse (1917), Julie Guicciardi (1782), and Michał Kalecki (1899). After him are Wilhelm Kube (1887), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), John Cantius (1390), Hellmuth Stieff (1901), Gustav Freytag (1816), and Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Franciszek Gajowniczek ranks 8. Before him are Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Irena Sendler (1910), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Jan Karski (1914), Leopold Trepper (1904), and Czesława Kwoka (1943). After him are Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Franceska Mann (1917), Danuta Wałęsa (1949), and Ernestine Rose (1810).

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