caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date alt known_for image article_title name occupation death_cause
henryk sławik 1944 gusen concentration camp , austria timmendorf , poland -rrb- , german empire -lrb- now part of jastrzębie-zdrój polish 1894 henryk sławik holocaust rescue henryk slawik.jpg henryk sławik
 henryk sławik politician hanging
henryk sławik

henryk sławik -lrb- 16 july 1894 - 23 august 1944 -rrb- was a polish politician in the interwar period , social worker , activist , and diplomat , who during world war ii helped save over 30,000 polish refugees , including 5,000 polish jews in budapest , hungary by giving them false polish passports with catholic designation .
he was executed with some of his fellow polish activists on order of reichsführer ss in concentration camp gusen on 23 august 1944 .
