page_title: Stefan Wiechecki
hierarchical_section_title: Stefan Wiechecki
caption_attribution_description: English: Warsaw Uprising: Soldiers from "Radosława" Regiment retreating from Powązki into ex-Ghetto district while passing a barricade across Okopowa Street near Pfeiffer Factory (Okopowa 58/72). Barricade is build from locomotives used to remove rubble from Warsaw Ghetto. Behind the barricade a wall of Jewish cemetery is visible. Polski: Oddziały z grupy "Radosława" wycofują się z Powązek na teren byłego getta mijając barykadę ustawioną w poprzek ul. Okopowej na wysokości ul. Glinianej przy Garbarni Pfeiffera (Okopowa 58/72). Barykada jest zbudowana z lokomotywy i kolejki wywożącej gruz z Getta. Za Barykadą jest widoczny mur cmentarza żydowsiego. Widoczny namalowany symbol "GS" harcerskich "Grup Szturmowych". Także widoczne napisy: "GS idą do szturmu", "Warszawo tyś nasza", "Kompania Rudy, Pluton Felek", "3" (numer plutonu 2 kompanii "Zośki") i karykatura Hitlera. Napisy i rysunki wykonane przez Stefana Wiecheckiego "Wiecha". W wagonie "ósemki" znajdowało się miejsce postoju dowódcy plutonu "Felek" batalionu "Zośka"
context_page_description: Stefan Wiechecki was a Polish writer and journalist. He is most fondly remembered for his humorous feuilletons, which chronicled the everyday life of Warsaw and cultivated the Warsaw dialect.
  Stefan Wiechecki was born 10 August 1896. In inter-war Poland he collaborated with numerous Warsaw-based newspapers, initially as a court reporter. During numerous trials he documented typical personalities of the poorer, less-known part of the city with its distinctive culture, language and customs. With time he was given his own column in Express Wieczorny evening newspaper, where he published humorous sketches and feuilletons featuring personalities based on people taking part in trials he took part in. They gained much popularity and in late 1930s Wiechecki opened a chocolate shop in the borough of Praga, which became his main source of income.
  During the Warsaw Uprising, he was cut off from his house on the other side of the river, in the Old Town. There he collaborated with numerous newspapers published in the Polish-held part of town, notably the Powstaniec. Sharing the fate of the rest of Warsaw's civilians, Wiechecki was forced out of the city after the end of the uprising.
context_section_description: Stefan Wiechecki (pen-name Wiech; 10 August 1896 – 26 July 1979) was a Polish writer and journalist. He is most fondly remembered for his humorous feuilletons, which chronicled the everyday life of Warsaw and cultivated the Warsaw dialect.
  Stefan Wiechecki was born 10 August 1896. In inter-war Poland he collaborated with numerous Warsaw-based newspapers, initially as a court reporter. During numerous trials he documented typical personalities of the poorer, less-known part of the city with its distinctive culture, language and customs. With time he was given his own column in Express Wieczorny evening newspaper, where he published humorous sketches and feuilletons featuring personalities based on people taking part in trials he took part in. They gained much popularity and in late 1930s Wiechecki opened a chocolate shop in the borough of Praga, which became his main source of income. 
  During the Warsaw Uprising, he was cut off from his house on the other side of the river, in the Old Town. There he collaborated with numerous newspapers published in the Polish-held part of town, notably the Powstaniec. Sharing the fate of the rest of Warsaw's civilians, Wiechecki was forced out of the city after the end of the uprising. However, he returned soon after the town was retaken from the Germans and resumed his duties as a journalist. Some of his humorous stories were published in book form, while others continued to be published by Warsaw-based newspapers. 
  While criticised by linguists and polonists for filling the Polish language with trash, he was nevertheless considered a classic of the Warsaw dialect, at that time suppressed by schools along with all other non-standard variations of the literary language. One of the scientists to defend him in numerous articles was Bronisław Wieczorkiewicz, who later published the first monograph on the dialects of Warsaw. A renowned Polish poet Julian Tuwim dubbed Wiechecki the Homer of Warsaw's streets and Warsaw's language, his feuilletons are also mentioned in the works of Antoni Słonimski, Stefan Kisielewski and Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska. He died 26 July 1979 in Warsaw, where he is buried. After 1989 one of the main pedestrian-only zones of downtown Warsaw was officially named the Wiech Passage in honour of Wiechecki.
  Wiechecki's novel Cafe pod Minogą was filmed in 1956.
caption: Barricade made of train engines where Wiechecki edited some of the articles during the uprising; the signs and slogans painted on the engines were created by him
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