Stanisław Dubois

Polish journalist and political activist

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Stanisław Dubois
Stanisław Dubois
Personal details
Born	(1901-01-09)9 January 1901 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died	21 August 1942(1942-08-21) (aged 41) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
Political party	Polish Socialist Party
Occupation	Politician, 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]

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

Stanisław Dubois, Dzień Młodzieży Robotniczej 1927
Stanisław Dubois, Obrazki z niezbyt odległych okolic 1928
Stanisław Dubois, Przemówienie w związku z pacyfikacją w Małopolsce wschodniej 1931
Stanisław Dubois, W czerwonym Borysławiu 1931
Stanisław Dubois, Przemówienie przeciwko cenzurze sanacyjnej 1932
Stanisław Dubois, Przemówienie w dyskusji nad ustawą o szkołach akademickich 1933
Stanisław Dubois, Pogrzeb krakowski. Ulica łzami zmyta... 1936
Stanisław Dubois, Nie bardzo podłe miasto Mińsk Mazowiecki jak po oblężeniu 1936
Stanisław Dubois, 300 milionów i 200 rodzin. Tylko 300 milionów. 1937
Stanisław Dubois, Pod ciężkim jarzmem. Mniejszość polska w Niemczech 1938

References

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