Title:

Ocaliła go archeologia: działalność badawcza Kazimierza Gelinka (1882-1969) jako więźnia niemieckiego nazistowskiego obozu koncentracyjnego w Mauthausen-Gusen (Górna Austria) w latach 1940-1945

Subtitle:

Resued by archaeology: the research activities of Kazimierz Gelinek (1882-1969) as a prosoner of the German Nazi Concentration Camp at Mauthausen-Gusen (Upper Austria) in 1940-1945 ; Przegląd Archeologiczny T.59 (2011)

Creator:

Prinke, Andrzej

Publisher:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk ; Ośrodek Badań nad Kulturą Późnego Antyku i Wczesnego Średniowiecza

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Date issued/created:

2011

Description:

ill. ; 29 cm ; Bibliography p. 181-182

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

World War II ; Nazi Germany ; concentration camps ; Gusen ; Mauthausen-Gusen ; rescue excavations ; Upper Austria ; Upper Danube ; archaeological biograms

Abstract:

During the archival study of the rich legacy of Prof. Józef Kostrzewski carried out by the author, a ready-to-be-published manuscript by Kazimierz Gelinek (1946) in Polish and English was found. It describes his archaeological activities 1940-45 as a prisoner at Mauthausen-Gusen, one of the most severe German Nazi concentration camps. Gelinek, a geographer and pre-war grammar school teacher with extensive archaeological field and museum practice in the Płock region, was ordered by the camp commanders first to form the excavation brigade of prisoners in order to examine several sites in the vicinity of the camp (the archaeologically rich region of Upper Danube valley), then to organize a small archaeological museum in one of the camp barracks and finally – to prepare a monograph of the excavated area that was handed to Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS and Gestapo and an enthusiastic amateur of archaeology, during his visit

Relation:

Przegląd Archeologiczny

Volume:

59

Start page:

167

End page:

183

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0079-7138

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P III 149 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P III 272 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P III 353 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Access:

Open