Stanisław Dubois

Stanisław Dubois
Stanisław Dubois
Personal details
Born(1901-01-09)9 January 1901
Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died21 August 1942(1942-08-21) (aged 41)
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
Political partyPolish Socialist Party
OccupationPolitician, activist
Stanisław Dubois in KL-Auschwitz

Stanisław Józef Dubois (9 January 1901 – 21 August 1942) was a Polish journalist and political activist in the Second Polish Republic, member of the left wing of the Polish Socialist Party as well as the Youth Organisation of the Workers' University Society (Organizacja Młodzieży Towarzystwa Uniwersytetu Robotniczego).[1]

Biography

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He became involved in pro-independence and socialist activities as a student at Wojciech Górski Gymnasium in Warsaw.[2] After the World War I he joined Polish Socialist Party and took part in the Silesian Uprisings and in the Polish–Soviet War.[2] Dubois was a creator of the Red Scouts (Czerwone Harcerstwo Towarzystwa Uniwersytetu Robotniczego). In years 1928–1933 he was a member of the Polish parliament Sejm, and a councillor in Warsaw from 1938. Dubois was a secretary in the editorial office of the Robotnik (lit.'Worker') paper. As an opponent of Sanation he was charged in 1930 with the communist agitation in Lwów and sentenced in the Brest trials for 3 years in prison.[2] He was held at the Brest Fortress and while imprisoned, ran in the 1930 Polish legislative election. He was released the following month.[1]

His great-grandfather, Charles August Dubois, was a French officer of Napoleon's Grande Armée.[3]

World War II

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Dubois took part in the Polish resistance movement in World War II. He was arrested in 1940 in Warsaw and transported from the Pawiak prison to Auschwitz-Birkenau,[1] where he conspired with Witold Pilecki to gather intelligence inside the camp. He was executed by the Germans in 1942.[1]

Selected works

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Zygmunt Zaremba – Stanisław Dubois (1957)
  2. ^ a b c Wereszycki, Henryk (1939–1946). "Stanisław Dubois". www.ipsb.nina.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  3. ^ Zbigniew Szczygielski (1988). Stanisław Dubois, Wybór artykułów i przemówień. Warsaw. p. 5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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