Hungarian cardinal; archbishop of Lusaka in Zambia. Member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (1970-91).
 
DS - Document Signed: Christmas card, likely from Lusaka, Zambia, no year. Nicely signed in black fountain pen ink with an added greeting in his name. Accompanied by a small color reprint image from an original oil painting.
 
Ordained a Jesuit priest in 1937. Two years later he and 24 colleagues were arrested by the Gestapo in Kraków and sent to Aushwitz. Six months later he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp where he remained until the end of WWII. 
 
Following his release it was proposed that he go to Northern Rhodesia where the Polish Jesuits had a mission. He taught there for several years until he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the new Prefecture of Lusaka in 1950. Five years later he was consecrated bishop and, in 1959, appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Lusaka.
 
Cardinal Kozlowiecki was the recipient of many recognitions: from the President of Poland. In 2007 the Adam Kozlowiecki Museum Foundation "Heart Without Borders," was founded in his honor.