Antoni Kocjan (1902-1944) was one of the leading Polish glider designers of the interwar period, owner of the Glider Workshops in Warsaw, and creator of the Czajka, Wrona, Komar, Sroka and Orlik gliders. During World War II, he was active in the underground resistance. He was captured in a street roundup in 1940 and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, from which he was released in 1941 as a specialist employed by a company working for the Third Reich, which was an extremely rare case. He subsequently served in the aviation intelligence of the Home Army and investigated German V2 rocket tests on occupied Polish territory. He was arrested in 1944 and executed by the Germans at Pawiak prison on 13 August 1944.
