POLAND Presentation Marian Rejewski

Marian Rejewski A Polish inventor

Marian Rejewski was born on 16th August 1905 in Bydgoszcz, he died on 13th February 1980 in Warsaw

The Rejewski family

He was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in 1932 broke the Enigma cipher, the most important encryption machine used by Nazi, and a lieutenant of the Polish Army in Great Britain

Contributors The success of Rejewski and cryptologists from the Cipher Bureau, including Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Róşycki, made it possible for British readers of encrypted German correspondence during World War II, contributing to the victory of the Allied war.

Henryk Zygalski Jerzy Różycki

Marian Rejewski

Enigma The Enigma encryption machine was an electromechanical device equipped with a keyboard and a set of lamps marked with letters of the alphabet.

Commemoration The work of Polish cryptologists was appreciated both in Poland and abroad.

They were decorated with many Polish orders before and after the war and after declassifying information about breaking the Enigma code.

The Rejewski’s monument in Bydgoszcz

Enigma Cryptologists Monument in Poznań