Sat Okh

Sat Okh ( " Long Feather " ), civil Stanisław Supłatowicz († 3 July 2003 in Danzig) was a Polish resistance fighter and writer.

By his own account, he was the son of a Shawnee Indian and a Polish mother, was born in 1920 in Canada, and in 1937 with his mother to Poland.

After the outbreak of the Second World War he was arrested by the Germans. During transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp, he was able to escape, fought in the Polish Home Army against the German occupation and settled after the war under the name Stanisław Supłatowicz. He initially worked as a sailor, from 1958 he began to write books about the lives of Indians, some of which also appeared in German. He died in 2003 in Gdansk.

Works

• The land of rock salt (Berlin 1965)
• Together with A. Rassulowa: The secret of the old Sagamora (Berlin 1981)