[1] He was a student of Antoni Zygmund; and later worked with Juliusz Schauder, Stefan Kaczmarz and Raphaël Salem.

The exact place and date of his death remain unknown, but it is believed that he died, when aged 30, murdered by the NKVD in Kharkiv.

His parents, to whom he gave his manuscripts before the beginning of World War II, were transported to the Soviet Union in 1940 and later died of hunger in a camp.

Their fate is described by Zygmund[2] described the last and his lost mathematical works as follows: War broke out a few days after Marcinkiewicz returned to Wilno.

During his time in Paris and England, Marcinkiewicz had produced some mathematical work which he had written down in manuscript form.