Jerzy Luczak-Szewczyk (2 January 1923, Lublin, Poland - 12 April 1975, Örebro, Sweden) was a Polish-born Swedish painter, drawer and sculptor. Biography Jerzy Luczak's birth name was Wojciech Stanisław Szewczyk. He was born in Lublin, Poland and lived there during his childhood together with his mother Wincentyna (maiden name: Skośkiewicz), his father Franciszek Szewczyk and his sister Janina. Already as a child he was interested in painting and when the family in the late 1920s moved to the outskirts of Warsaw, he became acquainted with an established artist who taught him different techniques. During his teens he began studies in art at schools in Warsaw. However, after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, he had to end his education as German authorities took him to do forced labour in the spring of 1940. The refugee Luczak was sent to East Prussia, where he at first was commanded to work at a farm near the town Angerapp (present-day Ozyorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) and later in a forced labour camp in Allenstein (Olsztyn). In the autumn of 1943 he escaped to Warsaw where a relative hid him. Since he was wanted by German authorities and lived under the threat of execution if he was found, he had to assume a new identity. Through contacts with the Polish Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa) he got false documents and the name Jerzy Luczak. The false identity saved him from being executed when German military later took him again, during a round-up (Polish: Łapanka) in Warsaw. However he was sent to a forced labour camp, this time in Berlin, where he was forced to clear ruins after the Allied bombing raids. After some time he was selected together with about one hundred other prisoners to be sent to a forced labour camp in northern Norway. The group of prisoners was transported by boat via Stettin in Germany to Oslo in Norway. At the arrival Luczak escaped once more. He by coincidence met a man who contacted the Norwegian resistance movement. They helped him across the border to Sweden on the night between the 8 and 9 March 1944. When Jerzy Luczak-Szewczyk arrived in Sweden, the immigration authorities sent him to Örebro (a town situated in the middle of the country) where he got a job in a photographers company. At the same time he began his career as a professional artist, but during the