Zygmunt
Beczkowicz, Latvia
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His studies at the normal school and at the University of Moscow have
been interrupted by the action against the Russian occupation of
Polish territory. She ran a Red Cross Hospital.
Louise
Dobrzynska-Rybicka, Poland
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She organized pre-elections for the purpose of collaborating in the
formation of the necessary elite to support the national movement
under the German regime (Poznan). She took an active part in the
movement of independence which started in 1916 in Germ. Poland and
she collaborated in working on the Silesian Plebiscite.
Joseph
Dowbor-Musnicki, Poland
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created in Russia the first Polish Corps and he victoriously fought
against the bolsheviks.
Józef
Galuszka, Poland
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In 1920 he fought in the Polish bolshevist war as a Polish
officer.
Wysocki,
von Anton Godziemba, Poland
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In 1919, he actively participated in the defense of the city of
Cracow against the Ukrainian troups.
Benedykt
Hertz, Poland
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The fables of B. Hertz imitate La Fontaine only in the form, their
themes are his own and are original. They touch various political and
social questions in the form of poetry which the Russian census would
not have permitted to touch frankly. Thus these fables are historical
documents, and they belong to the fight for the Polish
independence.
Henri
Koral, Poland
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The "Grève scolaire" in Poland, of which he was one of the
chiefs and the revolution 1904-1905 to which he participated, were
the most important moments of his public life.
Stanislaw
Kot, Poland
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In September 1933 he was discharged by the government from the chair
of the University of Cracow in connection with the resistance of
professors against the suppression of autonomy in the University.
Ludwik
Krzywicki, Poland
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was a member of the Warsaw civil committee (Komitel Obywatelski) from
1915 to 1916 until the German authorities abolished this first
organization of Polish self-government.
Wincenty
Lutoslawski, Poland
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Teaching as private dozent at Cracow University, suspended by
Austrian Government for intensely national character and predictions
of Polish independence. He keeps a vast international correspondence
on Poland and Polish national thoughts.
Arnold
Makowski-Sarjusz, Poland
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participated in the prewar Polish democratic movement for liberty
from Russia. He was twice (1899 and 1901) imprisoned
Katie
Malecka, Poland
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She was imprisoned in Warsaw during the Russian rule and was freed by
the intercession of England. She lectured afterwards in Great Britain
on Polish affairs and the treatment of Poland by Russia.
Marian
Morelowski de Prus, Lithuania
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In 1921-1926 he was Chief of the Section for the recuperation of
Polish collections confiscated since 1772 by Russia and redemanded in
force by the treaty of Riga by special Polish delegations in Moscow
and Petersburg.
Marie
Rodziewicz, Poland
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Her parents were exiled after the insurrection of 1863; hard labor to
hold on to the land estate, revolution 1905; World War 1914-1918,
German occupation, economical devaluation by the Bolsheviks,
resurrection of Poland, hard struggle against the crisis.
Ladislas
Sikorski (de Kopaszyna), Poland and France
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During the Polish Soviet War he was Head of the group of operations
in Polesia. During the course of the decisive battle on the Vistula
on August 6/26, 1920, he was commander of the army and of the left
wing of the Polish army which supported the encounter of 3/5 of the
red army approaching Warsaw. A victory was obtained and the Soviet
army was driven back. He also defeated the famous army of the cavalry
of the general Budienny. Through this victory he could occupy
Wolhynia and all of the fortified zone of this region. In 1921/22 he
was Chief of the General Staff of the Polish army and one of the main
organizers of the army. After the assassination of Narutowicz,
President of the Polish Republic, he was called to the Presidency of
the Ministry Council. He re-established order in Poland.
Artur
Sliwinski, Poland
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Participated in the Polish Socialist movement and since 1915 he was
President of the National Central Committee which was the head of the
political movement fighting for the Polish independence against
Russia,as well as against Austria and Germany. This movement was in
strict correlation with Joseph Pilsudski and his Legions. In 1917 he
became member of the State Council convened by a manifest of Willaim
II. and Charles II., but he soon retired being in opposition with the
opportune politic of State Council with regard to German Regime.
Stefan
Starzynski, Poland
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was active among Polish students under the Russian occupation until
1914 and as an agitator for the boycott of Russian schools. He was in
Russian prisons (1910-11), served with the Polish legions
(1914-1917), was interned by the Germans for refusing the German oath
(1917), in the Polish army (1918-21), left the army as a captain
(1921), and was a member of the Committee for the Re-evacuation of
Moscow (1921-24)
Andrew
(pen name: Galecki Taddeus) Strug, Poland
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Upon return from political internment he was active in Polish
Socialist Party and the Independence Party and became the editor of
the illegal Peasant Paper "Gazeta Ludowa". He participated in the
revolution of 1905 and was arrested, sentenced to prison and exiled
from the country. From 1908 to 1914 he lived in Paris and kept busy
on his literary works. After the world war he participated in the
Independence Action of Poland during the German occupation of his
country. In 1928 he was elected to the Senate of the Independent
Polish Republic.
Countess
Marie Bianka Joanne Wielopolska, Poland
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The year 1912 was decisive for her; she got in connection with
political conspiratory spheres and devoted all her literary activity
to the Polish independence and to the party of Marshal Pilsudski. The
subject of her novels published then (Kryjaki - on the insurrection
of 1863, with a preface of Zeromski - 5 editions (among which one in
Chicago) and her articles was the Polish irredentist action.
Marian
Zdziechowski, Wilno
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attended 1905-1907 the Congress of Zemstows of the Russian Empire for
the rapproachment of Poland and Russia.