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BRONISLAW CECA
Surname: Bronislaw
Name: Ceca
Birth place: Zakopane
Birth: 25/07/1908
Death place: Auschwitz
Death: 04/06/1944
Skier
Talented skier, and with a passion for painting, after finishing high school Bronislaw moves to Warsaw to achieve the degree at the Central Institute of Physical Education.
Joins the Polish National Championships and plays in several disciplines (alpine skiing, nordic skiing, ski jumping), achieving the national title 24 times.
With the National representative of his Country, Bronislaw participates in the Winter Olympic Games of 1928 at St. Moritz, of 1932 at Lake Placid and of 1936 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, racing in the Nordic Combined, the ski jumping and the cross country skiing; he manages to achieve always great results. After the invasion of Poland by the Germans, Bronislaw joins the Resistance, but gets arrested and deported to Auschwitz where he'll eventually die. Some of his drawings are kept in the Auschwitz Memorial Museum.
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