August Marian Kowalczyk (15 August 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a Polish actor, theatre, television and film director who was the last survivor of a breakout of prisoners from Auschwitz Concentration Camp on 10 June 1942.
Born in Tarnawa Góra, he was arrested on 4 December 1940 whilst trying to cross the border with Czechoslovakia to join the Polish Army in France and was then sent to Auschwitz where he laboured for I.G.Farben. After escaping from the camp with 9 other prisoners (13 died and 20 were recaptured), he hid in the forest and was sheltered in the attic of a house for 7 weeks in the village of Bojszowy. He then travelled under false documents to Silesia and Kraków, before becoming a soldier in the Armia Krajowa, which was the main resistance movement in Poland.
On 9 November 1945 he made his debut as a stage actor in Kraków, performing with the Polish Theatre from Warsaw. He died of cancer, at age 90, on 29 July 2012 in Oświęcim, in a hospice he founded.
He was married four times. He has two children, son Marek (born 1950), from his first marriage and son Marcin (born 1957), from his second marriage.
2002
1989
as Seton
1977
as Schroder, gestapowiec
1974
1974
as Czech Aristocrat
1974
as Generał austriacki
1973
as Piotr
1973
1971
as Alfred Jodl
1969
as Johann Dehne ("Colonel Krafft's Genius Plan")
1969
as Johann Dehne ("Operation Oak Leaf")
1968
as SS-Sturmbannführer Johann Dehne
1968
as porucznik, dawniej SS-Sturmführer Johann Dehne
1966
as Inquisition Officer
1964
as NSZ Commander (uncredited)
1962
as Coroner
1961
as Major Lipiec
1961
as 'Thunder'
1960
as UB Officer
1955
as Priest
1954
as Zenon