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Korczak ZiolkowskiKorczak Ziołkowski (born on september 6 1908 in Boston - 1982) was a Polish-American sculptor of Crazy Horse Memorial. No one knows whether his family relates to the noble clan Korczak, as his given name suggests, but if so, his surname Ziolkowski was given this coat of arms in 1500, in Krakw, Poland. He was born exactly 34 years after the death of Crazy Horse on September 6, 1908 to Polish parents in Boston. Ziolkowski moved to West Hartford, Connecticut, and sold his commissioned sculpture throughout New England, Boston, and New York. In 1939 his marble sculpture of Ignacy Jan Paderewski won first prize at the New York Worlds Fair. During the same summer, he assisted Gutzon Borglum in the carving of the Mt. Rushmore Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota, near Rapid City. When World War II broke out, Ziolkowski volunteered to serve and ended up being wounded in 1944 at Omaha Beach, in Normandy, France. In 1947 Ziolkowski moved to the Black Hills, and began to search for a suitable mountain for his sculpture. Korczak thought the Wyoming Tetons would be the best choice, where the rock would be better for carving, but the Lakota wanted the memorial in the sacred Black Hills on a 600-foot high mountain. This monument was to be the largest sculpture in the world. When completed, it would be 563 feet high by 641 feet long. Crazy Horses head would be large enough to contain all the 60 foot high heads of the Presidents at Mount Rushmore. On June 3, 1948, the first blast was made and the memorial was dedicated to the Native American Indian people. Ziolkowski, Korczak Ziolkowski, Korczak Ziolkowski, Korczak
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