Witold Hulewicz

Witold Hulewicz (1895–1941) was a Polish poet, literary critic, translator and publisher.

Arrested by the Germans during World War II as part of their AB-Aktion, Witold Hulewicz was murdered at Palmiry in 1941.

Witold Hulewicz was born on 26 November 1895 in Kościanki near Słupca, to a wealthy landowner family of Greater Poland.

Early in his youth Witold Hulewicz moved to Poznań, where he started his studies at a local Humanist Faculty.

He returned to Poznań in 1918 to continue his studies, but instead joined the ranks of the Polish Army and took part in the Greater Poland Uprising.

Witold Hulewicz in 1928, portrait by Jan Bułhak