Krawiec was born in
Bachórzec,
Poland. He finished his officer training shortly before the
World War II and participated in the
defense of Poland. On 17 September 1939, 16 days after the Germans invaded Poland, Krawiec joined the
underground and ran
a secret newspaper until he was arrested by the Germans in April 1943. He was transported to
Auschwitz, where he did slave labor instead of being immediately murdered, since he was a
Polish Catholic. He was later transferred to
Buchenwald. In April 1945, the Germans evacuated the prison camp and forced the inmates, including Krawiec, on a
death march until they were freed by American troops. In 1949, he arrived in Chicago and worked for ten years as a mechanic for Canfield Beverage Company. He earned a degree from
Loyola University in
political science. He then became a writer for a Polish-language newspaper,
Dziennik Chicagoski. He later moved to competing newspaper
Dziennik Związkowy. He was appointed editor-in-chief and remained such until 1985 when he retired. He was part of President Nixon's press pool during his presidential visit to Poland. Krawiec never married. He contracted
COVID-19 in October 2020, and died two weeks later at the age of 101. == References ==