[1] A senior custodian of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum,[1] Świebocki specializes in the resistance movement within the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland during World War II.
[2] He is the editor of London has been informed: Reports by Auschwitz escapees (1997);[3] author of The Resistance Movement, volume IV of Auschwitz 1940–1945 (2000);[4] and editor of People of Good Will (2009).
[1] His father, Karol Świebocki, was a member of Poland's Home Army who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner from 17 June 1942; he died on 10 August that year in a gas chamber in Auschwitz II–Birkenau,[6] one of a group of 193 sick prisoners in the camp hospital that the Germans decided to gas.
[7] Świebocki's uncle, an artist, was also imprisoned in the camp, for three years, but he survived.
He joined the Historical Research Department of the Auschwitz State Museum in 1964.