Józef Stefan Godlewski
Stefan Józef Godlewski (5 August 1894 in Warsaw – 6 September 1942 in Auschwitz) was a Polish poet and novelist. He was imprisoned and died in the German concentration camp Auschwitz. A court testimony on 22 March 1947 by Auschwitz prisoner and member of the Sonderkommando, Aleksander Górecki, sheds light on the reason for the imprisonment of Godlewski, as well as his passage through the Prisoners Hospital block 20 in Auschwitz: I saw a Warsaw writer among them, Stefan Godlewski.
Also recorded as Jozef Stefan Godlewski · Stefan Godlewski
Józef Stefan Godlewski
30wa30 · CC0
- Name
- Stefan Godlewski
- Born
- 5 August 1894
- Birthplace
- Warsaw, Poland
- Died
- 6 September 1942
- Place of death
- Auschwitz
- Occupation
- Poet and novelist
- Full name
- Stefan Józef Godlewski.
- Nationality
- Poland
- Fields
- poetry · literature · translation from French
- Languages
- Polish
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Józef Stefan Godlewski. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q6320663 · wikipedia · Stefan Godlewski
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
The documentary record
Statements marked “Documentary record” are set in the article beside the passage they confirm. Each is read from the authority records of the institutions named here; select “Prove” to see the record it was read from, where in that record, and when.
Institutions cited
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Complete reading chain (JSON)In this article
Biography
Biography
He knew he was going to be released from the camp. When he saw me, he asked for rescue. He had been sent to the camp because some conspiracy activist had run into his apartment while escaping, burst out onto the balcony, jumped out onto a tree and fled. But Godlewski was sent to Auschwitz by the Gestapo. The family was making efforts, however, and he was to be released. But people who were extremely exhausted, beaten or ill wouldn’t be released - they’d be put in quarantine until they got better. Stefan Godlewski fell ill with typhoid. He was moved to the typhoid block. He was emaciated, he couldn’t walk, he just crawled, begging to do anything to save him from the gas chamber. I turned to Dr. Entress, a graduate of Poznań University, a man brought up on Polish bread, who was doing quite well in Poland, to ask for help. Entress replied that he had to follow the list and told me to mind my own business.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Stefan Godlewski • Born — 5 August 1894 • Birthplace — Warsaw, Poland • Died — 6 September 1942 • Place of death — Auschwitz • Occupation — Poet and novelist
Documentary record
Józef Stefan Godlewski lived from 5 August 1894 to 6 September 1942 and is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Józef Stefan Godlewski was born in Warsaw, Poland (5 August 1894) and died in Oświęcim, Poland (6 September 1942).
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Warsaw.
Birth place
Auschwitz.
Death place
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Stefan Godlewski, revision 1342765161 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Czytelnik Publishing House. Poezja polska 1914–1939: antologia. 145. 1984. 8307003954.
- 2.Skład główny w księg, Gebethnera i Wolffa. Polski slownik biograficzny: Girdwoyń-Gross, Adam. 185–186. 1935.
- 3.Godlewski Stefan Józef, Encyklopedia PWN: źródło wiarygodnej i rzetelnej wiedzy. encyklopedia.pwn.pl.
- 4.Archiwum Instytutu Pileckiego, Zapisy Terroru, Aleksander Górecki, Zeznanie z postępowania sądowego/karnego z 22.03.1947, https://www.zapisyterroru.pl/dlibra/show-content?id=3893 [dostęp: 28.10.2024], oryginał: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, GK 196/110.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 25 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Józef PluskowskiAuthor
- Józef SękowskiAuthor
- Jozef SlagveerAuthor
- Jožef SmejAuthor
- Józef SzczepańskiAuthor
- Józef SzujskiAuthor
- Jozef TomkoAuthor
- Józef WeyssenhoffAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Józef Stefan Godlewski?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.