Stanisław_Dubois

Stanisław Dubois

Stanisław Dubois

Polish journalist and political activist


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 Polish Socialist Party as well as the Youth Organisation of the Workers' University Society (Organizacja Młodzieży Towarzystwa Uniwersytetu Robotniczego).[1]

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Stanisław Dubois in KL-Auschwitz

Biography

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

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

See also


References

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

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