Editing Antoni Kępiński (section)

==Biography==
Kępiński was born in [[Dolyna|Dolina]], which at that time was part of Poland (now southwestern Ukraine). During the childhood years, he resided in [[Nowy Sącz]] where his father held the position of [[Starostwo|starosta]].<ref name ="ryn1">{{cite web|last1=Ryn|first1=Zdzisław|title=Mistrz Antoni Kępiński|url=http://www.psychiatria.pl/artykul/mistrz-antoni-kepinski/776|website=psychiatria.pl|access-date=1 May 2017}}</ref> He attended the élite [[Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School]] in [[Kraków]]. In 1936, Kępiński entered the Medical Faculty of the [[Jagiellonian University]]. In 1939, he interrupted his studies before graduation and volunteered for the Polish Army to defend his country from the impending Invasion of Poland. After the simultaneous [[Invasion of Poland]] by [[Nazi Germany]] and the [[Soviet Union]], Kępiński was captured and imprisoned in [[Hungary]], to where he had fled. In 1940, he managed to escape imprisonment and headed to [[France]], then [[Spain]], where he was imprisoned in [[Miranda de Ebro]].<ref name="ryn1" />

Later he was freed and moved to the [[United Kingdom]], spending a short time with the [[Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain|Polish Air Force in Great Britain]]. In 1944–1945, he continued his medical studies at [[University of Edinburgh]]'s [[Polish School of Medicine]], graduating in 1946. He then returned to Poland and took up psychiatry at the Psychiatric Clinic in the ''Collegium Medicum'' of the [[Jagiellonian University]] in Kraków. Shortly before his death in 1972 he was appointed professor in the faculty.<ref>{{cite web|title=Antoni Kępiński's short biography (In Polish) at newzealandline.wordpress.com|date=15 December 2013 |url=https://newzealandline.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/antoni-kepinski/}}</ref>

As a concentration camp inmate himself, Kępiński took part in a rehabilitation programme for survivors from the [[Auschwitz]] concentration camp.<ref name="ryn1" />