Florian Marciniak (codenames: Jerzy Nowak, Nowak, J.Krzemień, Szary, Flo; 4 May 1915 in

Gorzyce, Kościan County Gorzyce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czempiń, within Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south of Czempiń, east of Kościan, and south of the regional capital Poz ...

– 20/21 February 1944 in

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) was a Polish scoutmaster (

harcmistrz Ranks in Polish Scouting are common to the majority of Scouting organisations in Poland, including the two most popular organisations. However, the exact system used is usually left to the discretion of individual groups. Some groups may only gra ...

), and the first Naczelnik (Chief Scout) of the paramilitary scouting resistance organization, the

Szare Szeregi Grey Ranks () was a codename for the underground paramilitary Polish Scouting Association () during World War II. The wartime organisation was created on 27 September 1939, actively resisted and fought German occupation in Warsaw until 18 ...

, during the

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. Marciniak was a graduate of St. John Cantius High School in Poznań. He was arrested by the

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on 6 May 1943 and murdered in February 1944 at the

Gross-Rosen concentration camp Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. The main camp was located in the German village of Gross-Rosen, now the modern-day Rogoźnica in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, di ...

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