. . . . "Jan J\u00F3zef Grali\u0144ski (February 8, 1895 \u2013 January 9, 1942) was chief of the Polish General Staff's interbellum Cipher Bureau's Russian section, B.S.-3. After Poland was overrun by the Germans and Soviets in September 1939, Grali\u0144ski managed, along with other Cipher Bureau personnel, to reach Paris, France. He became part of the reconstituted Polish cryptologic unit that was housed during the \"Phony War\" in the Ch\u00E2teau de Vignolles, codenamed PC Bruno, at Gretz-Armainvillers, some forty kilometers northeast of Paris."@en . "Jan J\u00F3zef Grali\u0144ski (February 8, 1895 \u2013 January 9, 1942) was chief of the Polish General Staff's interbellum Cipher Bureau's Russian section, B.S.-3. After Poland was overrun by the Germans and Soviets in September 1939, Grali\u0144ski managed, along with other Cipher Bureau personnel, to reach Paris, France. He became part of the reconstituted Polish cryptologic unit that was housed during the \"Phony War\" in the Ch\u00E2teau de Vignolles, codenamed PC Bruno, at Gretz-Armainvillers, some forty kilometers northeast of Paris. After northern France was overrun by German forces in May\u2013June 1940, Grali\u0144ski was one of the Polish cryptologic team that operated at Cadix in southern, Vichy France's \"Free Zone.\" Grali\u0144ski perished in the Mediterranean Sea, near the Balearic Islands, on January 9, 1942. He was returning to the Cadix center, near Uz\u00E8s in southern France, from a stint at Cadix's branch office at the Ch\u00E2teau Couba on the outskirts of Algiers. His passenger ship, the Lamorici\u00E8re, sank in unclear circumstances. Fellow victims of the disaster, among the 222 passengers lost, included Piotr Smole\u0144ski, likewise of the prewar Cipher Bureau's Russian section, and Jerzy R\u00F3\u017Cycki of its German section, as well as a French officer accompanying the three Poles, Capt. Fran\u00E7ois Lane. In 1978 cryptologist Marian Rejewski, of the prewar Cipher Bureau's German section (B.S.-4), was asked by historian Richard Woytak whether he had known Capt. (eventually Major) Grali\u0144ski. Rejewski replied that he had but that, for reasons of security, they had never discussed their respective cryptologic work. Rejewski added that Grali\u0144ski \"was supposed to have been very talented.\""@en . "Jan Grali\u0144ski"@en . . . . . .