Wiktor Ormicki

Wiktor Ormicki (born Wiktor Rudolf Nusbaum, 1 February 1898 – 17 September 1941) was a Polish geographer and cartographer, and a university professor. He was of Jewish descent. A specialist in economical geography and

demography Demography () is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration. Demographic analysis examine ...

, he served at various posts in the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

, Free Polish University, Higher Trade School of Kraków and Lwów University. Arrested by the Germans during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

Sonderaktion Krakau ''Sonderaktion Krakau'' was a German operation against professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University and other universities in German-occupied Kraków, Poland, at the beginning of World War II. It was carried out as part of the much bro ...

, he was murdered in the

Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp Mauthausen was a German Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen, Upper Austria, Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with List of subcamps of Mauthausen, nearly 100 f ...

. 1898 births 1941 deaths Scientists from Kraków Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust Academic staff of Jagiellonian University Academic staff of the University of Lviv People who died in Mauthausen concentration camp Polish civilians killed in World War II Polish geographers Polish people executed in Nazi concentration camps Executed people from Lesser Poland Voivodeship Jewish scientists 20th-century Polish geographers {{Poland-bio-stub