Feliks Konarski
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Feliks Konarski (pseudonym: Ref-Ren) was a Polish song-writer and cabaret performer.
During World War II, Konarski served with General Władysław Anders' Polish Second Corps in Italy. There, on the eve of the Poles' victorious storming of Monte Cassino, he wrote the unforgettable and moving anthem, Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino (The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino). This song, set to music by Alfred Schuetz, became his most famous composition, served to maintain his compatriots' spirits in one of Poland's darkest hours, and after the war was banned in Poland under communist rule.
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