14 Facts About Zygmunt Rumel

Zygmunt Rumel was killed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the massacres of Poles in Volhynia in 1943.

Zygmunt Rumel's parents were avid readers and their son inherited it from them.

Zygmunt Rumel graduated from a renowned Liceum Krzemienieckie and went to Warsaw to continue his education at the Warsaw University.

Zygmunt Rumel was a member of Volhynian Association of Village Youth, and cooperated with People's University in the village of Rozyn, where he probably met senator Kazimierz Banach.

Zygmunt Rumel was a publicist of the Droga Pracy magazine, writing about history and society.

Zygmunt Rumel remained in Volhynia, where in late 1939 he joined Polish underground organization formed by activists of the peasant movement.

In February and March 1940 Zygmunt Rumel twice travelled from Volhynia to Warsaw, as a courier of the ZWZ.

In early summer 1943, when the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, together with local Ukrainian nationalists, began a campaign of massacres of Polish civilians in Volhynia, Zygmunt Rumel, who spoke Ukrainian fluently, was assigned to get in touch with leaders of the UPA and start talks, which would bring an end to the massacres.

The First Zygmunt Rumel's poems were published in 1934 in a school bulletin.

Zygmunt Rumel kept most of his work to himself, and did not aspire to have them published.

Zygmunt Rumel rarely drew inspiration from the works of Polish avant-garde poets, but in some of his poems influences of Leopold Staff and Boleslaw Lesmian can be found.

Zygmunt Rumel felt close to the Volhynian folk culture, and frequently used Ukrainian and Russian words.

Zygmunt Rumel wrote about Polish historical subjects, best exemplified in his poem "The Year 1863".

Zygmunt Rumel is the patron of several clubs of young Polish poets.