Stanisław Urbańczyk was born in a peasant family of Kwaczała . He completed 4-class elementary school in Kwaczała and started learning in St. Anne 's Secondary School ( today I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im . Bartłomieja Nowodworskiego w Krakowie ) . In the years 1929-1934 he studied Polish and Slavic philology at the Jagiellonian University . In 1937 he became an academic teacher . Among his students was young Karol Wojtyła , later the pope John Paul II . In 1939 he was arrested by the Nazis during Sonderaktion Krakau and imprisoned in concentration camps in Sachsenhausen and Dachau
Sonderaktion Krakau
Sonderaktion Krakau
Stanisław Urbańczyk