Czesław Gawlikowski (25 February 1899 – 15 March 1984) was a Polish military officer, doctor, and member of the resistance movement.

After contracting typhus, he was transferred to a prison in Chelyabinsk, where he was forced to work alongside commanders Jan Medwadowski [pl] and Edward Dojan-Surówka.

A boy from a family ran to deliver the message that his father would be arrested and shot if the fugitive from the camp did not report to the mill.

[3][5] After being transferred to the reserves and graduating from high school with a diploma in Polish, he began studying law at the University of Warsaw and later medicine.

On 16 August 1928, he was called to active service in the Polish Armed Forces, and on 1 September 1928, he left for the Officers' Medical School in Warsaw.

On 1 January 1931, having not received timely referral to a military hospital in a "specialty category", he requested to be released from active service while remaining in the reserves.

[6] From April 1929 to 1 June 1930, he worked as an assistant at the St. Zofia City Maternity Hospital in Warsaw, specializing in obstetric surgery.

[11]The resistance unit was under the supervision of Hospital Director Czesław Gawlikowski, who ran surgery and obstetrics in the building at 4 Piękna Street.

In the spring of 1943, Papieski was arrested by the Gestapo along with a group of people who attended a wedding ceremony at St. Alexander's Church in Warsaw.

About two weeks later, County Physician Dorożyński arrived and informed me that the position of director had been entrusted to Dr. Dobulewicz, who, as a surgeon and military officer, was better suited to the role during wartime and occupation".

[12] On 5 June 1943, he arrived very late for a wedding organized at St. Alexander's Church because he had been detained at his practice on Żelazna Street by a patient.

[19][20] There, he continued his work as a doctor, hiding children from the ghetto brought in by Żegota, orphans from the bombed-out facility run by Father Boduena, entire families needing refuge, and soldiers from the internal military.

[1][22] Czesław Gawlikowski received an assignment to develop plans for medical support for the Warsaw Uprising for the VII District Brzozów/Legionowo.

[23] During the Warsaw Uprising, Corporal Ludwik Drzewiecki, codenamed Organ, went specifically to pick up Dr. Czesław Gawlikowski, Adam S-II, from the assembly point of the Sanitary Battalion.

[17] Around midnight, the unit departed in a horse-drawn ambulance loaded with medical equipment, medicines, and first aid kits toward Jabłonna, where a field hospital for the battalion was to be established.

[17] On August 2, around 5 AM, the group arrived at Jabłonna via Piaskowa Street, where instead of the planned observation posts, they encountered a German patrol.

The group had not been informed that the previous day Jabłonna had been taken by a division of armored troops H. Goering, hastily brought in from Italy.

The medical unit managed to escape and hide, but one member, Jan Świątek, codenamed Piątek, was captured and executed on the spot by the Germans.

[17] From the following day, Czesław Gawlikowski worked in a partisan hospital in Legionowo, located in a villa on Krasińskiego Street, which was opened on 5 and 6 August 1944 due to the influx of many wounded.

[26] His work was systematically sabotaged by the secretary of the Party Organization and the health department of the Voivodeship National Council, especially since his beliefs, which were not "politically correct" for those times, were well-known.

Although Dr. Czesław Gawlikowski was deeply engaged in hospital matters, both in terms of improving infrastructure and staffing, his efforts could not succeed due to the political and economic situation.

[26] By the decision of the Minister of Health on 2 October 1954, he was transferred to Suwałki as the head of the surgery department at the Ludwik Rydygier Provincial Hospital.

At the age of 82, he continued to receive loyal patients in his office located in a house on Kamedulska Street, where queues formed, especially on market days.

In contact with a young patient, the doctor became infected, and the disease led to a serious heart defect that required lifelong care for the physician.