Given name: Kazimierz Andrzej Family name: Kot

Born in a completely assimilated and educated Jewish family. While in junior high school he belonged to a Polish underground school organisation. Left for England in 1937 because he did not want to endure anti-Semitic excesses at Polish universities; social and political studies at the University of Liverpool. Sent articles from Liverpool to magazines associated with the democratic party in Poland. In 1939, before the outbreak of the war, he returns to Poland. Fights in the Polish army against the Nazi invasion. Right after Germans had captured Warsaw Kot participated in the underground's activities within the framework of PLAN (Polish People's Independence Action), which was a democratic party. Becomes the commander of the combat department? Takes part in a couple of sabotage actions and helps construct the first secret radio station for the uprising movement. At the beginning of January 1940, due to a provocation he got arrested by the Gestapo. Put in prison at the Gestapo headquarters in Szucha Avenue from where he manages to escape at first to Lvov and then to the Soviet Union. Died in the Soviet Union. The Gestapo arrested his whole family. His parents and sister died during an action in the Warsaw ghetto.