Grzegorz Timofiejew

Grzegorz Timofiejew (11 March 1908 in Łódź - 3 October 1962 in Łódź) was a Polish poet of distant Russian ancestry.

In 1928 he was among the co-founders of the "Meteor" poetic group. After the outbreak of World War II he was also an active member of the resistance and the editor of "Tyrtej" literary monthly, published underground in occupied Poland. In 1942 he was arrested by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz and then Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps.

Works

* "Nie ma mnie w domu" (1930)
* "Inny horyzont" (1935)
* "Wysoki płomień. Wiersze z konspiracji i obozu" (1946)
* "W stronę jutra" (1954)
* "Wiersze dla dzieci" (1957)
* "Gorycz wierzbiny" (1958)
* "Miłość nie zna zmęczenia" (1959)
* "Człowiek jest nagi" (1960)
* "Wiersze wybrane" (1961)
* "Trudna wolność" (1964)