Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (3 September 1921 – 21 July 2016)[1] was a Polish-born polymath and inventor with 50 patents to his credit.

After the invasion of Poland in World War II, in December 1939 Pogonowski, aged 18, left Warsaw with the intent of joining the Polish Armed Forces in the West.

[3] Pogonowski summarized his experiences at the Nazi concentration camps in a three-page article popularized in Richard C. Lukas' Out of the Inferno.

[4] Pogonowski published an illustrated history of Poland (2000), historical atlases and a work on Polish heraldry (2002).

"[5] He was criticized by Piotr Wróbel[6] and Joanna Michlic, who believes him to represent the ethnonationalist trend in historiography.