Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt Listenⓘ (17 October 1916 – 10 April 2001) was a World War II Polish Silent Unseen, and later a journalist and author.

Seven years later, on 5 September 2008, he was posthumously awarded one of Poland's highest honors, the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

[2] On the night of 27 December 1941, Tadeusz Chciuk took part in Operation Jacket, in which a small group of special agents (called Cichociemni, lit.

In addition to meetings with the Chief Delegate (the acting head of the government) and political and underground leaders, he also smuggled himself into the Warsaw Ghetto and witnessed horrifying scenes.

He was captured by the Spanish Guardia Civil while crossing into Spain from Andorra, and was held in jail in Gerona until he was transferred to a concentration camp in Miranda de Ebro.

With his young wife and one-year-old daughter Aleksandra, taking only what they could carry, Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt fled Poland in September 1948, not to return for 43 years.

After staying in United Nations refugee camps in Austria, the young family eventually made their way to Paris, where they would live for three years in severe poverty.

While Ewa finished her university studies at the Sorbonne and gave birth to a son, Luc, Tadeusz worked for the emigre PSL and took whatever odd jobs he could.

In 1952, Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt was invited to be one of the founders of the Polish section of Radio Free Europe, a U.S.-funded station based in Munich, broadcasting news, commentary and entertainment to the countries behind the Iron Curtain.

After retiring from Radio Free Europe in 1983, Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt remained in Germany and wrote several books in Polish.