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Kaz Cimoszko
Television and film engineer, Polish community leader
Born Sept. 6, 1921, Sosnowiec, Poland; came to U.S., 1953; son of Mieczyslaw and Zofia (Dunin - Markiewicz); married Irene (Zyndram - Koscialkowska); child: Ann.
Education: TV Workshop of New York, New York City, 1954; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1958.
Career: political prisoner, concentration camp, Buchenwald (Germany), 1944-45; worker (Sweden), 1946-47; film specialist, ASEA Brown Boveri, Vasteras (Sweden), 1947-53; film librarian, United Nations (UN), New York City, 1953; film editor, International Film Foundation, New York City, 1953-54; TV film engineer, National Educational TV, Ann Arbor, 1954-85; retired.
Author: various lectures on Polish culture and history (Sweden), 1947-53; article in Ameryka, 1962; 2 papers, Psychological Barriers in Introducing a Democratic System in Poland, and Remarks About the American System of Local Self-Government, 1990.
Member of: active member, Society of Motion Picture & TV Engineers (manager, Michigan section, 1980-85); American Film Institute; Copernicus Endowment Committee, University of Michigan; Polish Affairs Commission, Polish American Congress (P.A.C.) (founder and past president, Ann Harbor chapter); Studium - North American Study Center for Polish Affairs.
Honors: Letter of Appreciation, Polish Prime Minister, 1990.
Served with: Polish Home Army - Armia Krajowa (A.K.).
Affiliation: Independent. Roman Catholic.
Languages: Polish, English, Swedish, German.
Hobbies: political science, photography, bicycling.
Home: 2811 Canterbury Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996
Cimoszko, Kazimierz
Kazimierz Cimoszko was born on September 6, 1921 in Sosnowiec, the son of Mieczyslaw and his wife Zofia, a member of the Dunin-Markiewicz family. He passed his high school graduation exam in Ostrzeszow Wielkopolski in May 1939. On August 31 of that year he made application to study at the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute. He was there when World War II broke out. After Warsaw surrendered in October 1939 he was able to return to Wisla.
His role in the underground opposition to the German occupiers consisted of establishing and maintaining direct contact with prisoners of war who were then employed as labor on the great farm estates in Silesia. On November 7, 1944, he was arrested, and then taken to a concentration camp in Buchenwald. He was given the number 98744. He was liberated on April 14, 1945.
He had no desire to return to a Poland that was under communist rule. After his liberation he quickly located his fiance Irena Zyndram-Koscialkowska, who had been imprisoned in the Ravensbruck and Belsen concentration camps. After their marriage in June 1945 in Bergen-Belsen, they left for Sweden.
In 1953 they had the opportunity to emigrate to the United States. It was there that Kazimierz finished his training at The Television Workshop of New York. From 1954 he has lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1958 he became a United States citizen and on the basis of exam scores was accepted as a second year student at the University of Michigan. Before retiring in 1985 he worked in Ann Arbor at National Educational Television's technical center. In 1961 his daughter Ann was born (currently she is Ann C. Young).
He was a founder of a Polish American Congress Chapter in Ann Arbor and served three terms as its president. In addition to his native Polish, he is proficient in English, Swedish, and German.
Resume in book: "A Family from Sosnowiec" by Kazimierz Cimoszko
Before World War II, under German and Soviet occupation, and outside Poland's borders
Motto: Families, just like nations, forgetting their histories lose their identities.
Published by:
Dr. Antoni Lenkiewicz;
Biuro Tlumaczen
50-550 Wroclaw, ul. Wieczysta 77/33, Poland, tel: 336-70-44
e-mail: [email protected]