Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski "Laudaà Âski" (20 April 1924 in Bydgoszcz â 22 June 1998 in Ciechocinek) was a noted Polish soldier during World War II, and later an engineer and inventor, as well as writer.
Deczkowski left school in 1939, the year of the September Campaign, and joined the Home Army. During the invasion, he became a runner with the Polish Scouting Association, which was then operating as the underground Szare Szeregi. In 1944, he took part in the Warsaw uprising as a member of the Batalion Zoà Âka.
In 1949, during the darkest years of Stalinism in Poland, he was arrested by the Polish security service and in 1950, he was convicted and sentenced by a military court to 5 years in prison. After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was released from prison on March 23, 1953. After his release, he graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology in November 1953, and became an inventor of medical equipment. On December 29, 1956, the Supreme Court of Poland rehabilitated him, clearing his name from his 1950 conviction.
He published in Poland two books of wartime memoirs "Wspomnienia à ¼oà Ânierza baonu AK "Zoà Âka" and "Wróbel" z "Kamieni na szaniec".