Kazimierz Leski is recorded at Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations - one of the non-Jews who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
The record lists Kazimierz Leski as Polish pilot, officer, spy, engineer and inventor.
Kazimierz Leski was born at Warsaw in 1912. His recorded nationality is Poland. He was educated at Delft University of Technology.
By occupation Kazimierz Leski was engineer, spy and scientist - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Yad Vashem's criteria are strict: the rescuer must have risked their life, liberty or position, and must have sought no payment. That is why the title carries the weight it does.
Recognition: Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1994) and Righteous Among the Nations (1995).
Kazimierz Leski died in 2000, aged 88. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta — 1994
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1995
- Worked as engineer, spy and scientist
- Educated at Delft University of Technology
