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Leon Kruczkowski

Died in 1962

Leon Kruczkowski (1900-1962), born in Kraków, studied chemistry and technology at the city's higher school of industry, then settled in the Dąbrowa basin, where he published his first poems and became a figure of the literary left. A soldier in 1939, he spent the war in German prisoner-of-war camps. After 1945, he was Deputy Minister of Culture from 1945 to 1948, president of the Polish Writers' Union, a member of parliament and a member of the Council of State. He died in Warsaw on 1 August 1962.

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