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Piekarski, Kon
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Dr. Kon Piekarski was a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo from 1957 until approximately 1987.
Piekarski was born in Kiev, Ukraine. He worked as a jeweler in Poland until he enlisted as an officer in the Polish Army. When Hitler's forces invaded Poland in 1939, Piekarski joined the resistance. He was captured by the Germans a year later and was held as a prisoner of war in Auschwitz and later Buchenwald. Piekarski escaped in 1945 while he was being transferred to the Bergen-Bergen concentration camp.
Piekarski immigrated to Canada in 1951 with his first wife, Halina. He initially worked as a instructor in metallurgy at the Ryerson Institute of Technology until joining the University of Waterloo as a faculty member in mechanical engineering in 1957.
In 1989, Piekarski published a book titled, Escaping Hell - The Story of Polish Underground Officer in Auschwitz and Buchenwald describing his experiences during the war.
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Created by NM in 2024.
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Kelly, Jennifer. "Death-camp survivor's book attempts to rationalize the horror." Kitchener-Waterloo Record, April 11, 1987, p. 11.
"Obituary - Konstanty Piekarski wrote on Nazi camps." Kitchener-Waterloo Record, December 8, 1990, p. 10.