Kazimierz Piechowski was a Polish engineer, Boy Scout during the Second Polish Republic, and political prisoner of the Nazis held at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was a soldier of the Polish Home Army, and again became a political prisoner under the post-war communist government of Poland for seven years.
Kazimierz Piechowski (KL Auschwitz, 918)
Railway bridge over the Vistula river; Piechowski was in a forced work gang clearing the rubble
Main gate to Auschwitz I
Steyr 220, similar to car used in the escape
Scouting and Guiding in Poland
The Scouting and Guiding movement in Poland consists of about twelve independent organizations with an overall membership of about 160,000 Scouts and Guides. The largest organization by membership is Polish Scouting and Guiding Association with about 140,000 members.
Reproduction of the seal of Scout headquarters on the German Reich territory - signed by Węcławski, the secretary