Kazimierz Pawluk (1 July 1906 – 31 March 1944) known as “Kaz” was a Polish Vickers Wellington bomber “Observer and Captain” flying from England when he was taken prisoner during the Second World War.

Pawluk was in command of Vickers Wellington Mark II (squadron codes SM-M, serial number “W5567”) which took off from RAF Lindholme at 21:23 hours GMT on the night 28–29 March 1942 to attack the German town of Lübeck.

[4][5] He ended up in prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland) where he and Tom Kirby-Green shared in the care of a stray cat and her kittens.

He was in the first group of “walkers” who followed, they were led by Williy Williams and posed as a band of lumber mill workers on leave,[7] and included Australian Rusty Kierath, Johnny Bull, Doug Poynter, Ker-Ramsey, Canadian Jim Wernham and Pole Antoni Kiewnarski.

[14] They were shot near Hirschberg (now Jelenia Gora )[15][16][17][18][19] Pawluk was one of the 50 escapers who had been listed by SS-Gruppenfuhrer Arthur Nebe to be killed[20] so was amongst those executed and murdered by the Gestapo.