Shmuel krakowski biography

Shmuel Krakowski, Samuel Krakowski or Stefan Krakowski^[1] (Hebrew: שמואל קרקובסקי) (23 March 1926 – September 2018) was an Israeli historian specializing in the Holocaust in Poland.

After surviving the Holocaust, Krakowski worked for the intelligence and security services of the People's Republic of Poland.^[2] Later he became a Director of the Yad Vashem Archives in Israel.^[3]

Biography

Krakowski was born in Warsaw in a Polish-Jewish family to father Baruch and mother Miriam, but grew up in Łódź.^[3] At a young age he joined the Zionist youth organization Hashomer Hatzair.^[3] During World War II, he was imprisoned with other local Jews in the Łódź Ghetto, where he was involved with underground resistance.^[3] After the Łódź Ghetto was liquidated, he survived concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt.^[3]

Krakowski returned to Poland where he joined the structures