- Document ID: do_ETWAj7fHVSVFM91pH5bng
- Document Collection: 7-8-1- Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (IPN) Sig. 781000007 „Kartei Dachau“
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date of birth
should be 15.01.1930 (according to the sources below)
Andrzej KORCZAK-BRANECKI; nickname: Biały Bóbr, Bóbr.
[quote] „He was born on January 15, 1930. Before the outbreak of the war and during the occupation, he lived with his mother, two brothers and sister at ul. Oboźna 7. […] He was a liaison and distributor of the underground press, and also conducted intelligence activities. […] he was arrested by the Germans in Tamka and taken to the transit camp in Pruszków, and then to Dachau, where he received the number 106016. The next camp where he was imprisoned was Mannheim-Sandhofen. Until December 1944, he worked at the Daimler-Benz-Puch factory. After its bombing, he was transferred to the Buchenwald camp, where he received the number 99055 *).
On April 29, 1945, the camp was liberated by American troops. He returned to Warsaw on August 8, 1945 and went almost immediately to Oboźna Street. There he met his mother. […]“
(taken and translated from source)
*) according to his Buchenwald documents in the Arolsen Archives, his Buchenwald number was 55099 - see below
He died on 05.02.2020. (source)
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search?s=branecki%201930
(with last name Brandecki)
https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=2578427
http://www.vhghessen.de/inhalt/zhg/ZHG_122/Coy_Todesmarsch.pdf
His testimony:
Archiwum Historii Mówionej - Andrzej Korczak-Branecki