Małgorzata Fornalska
Małgorzata Fornalska (pseudonym: Jasia ; born June 10, 1902 in Fajsłowice , Lublin Voivodeship , † July 26, 1944 in Warsaw ) was a Polish communist and partisan . She was the wife of the future Polish President Bolesław Bierut .
Life
Fornalska was evacuated to Tsaritsyn during the First World War , where she became a member of a group of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL; Socjaldemokracja Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy ) in 1916 and joined the Red Army in 1918 . After returning to Poland in 1921, she became a member of the Communist Party of Poland . She was in prison from 1922 to 1926. After her release she went to the Soviet Union , where she worked for the Peasants' International and the Comintern .
Only in 1934 did she return to Poland, where she resumed her political activities. Among other things, she was the secretary of the Polish Red Aid . She was arrested again in 1936 and remained in prison until the German attack on Poland in 1939. Until 1941 she worked as a teacher in Białystok .
She was one of the organizers of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR; Polska Partia Robotnicza ), became a member of its Central Committee and, together with others, published the Trybuna Wolność , the central organ of the PPR. On November 14, 1943, she was arrested together with Paweł Finder in Warsaw and shot by the Gestapo on July 26, 1944 in Serbia prison .
literature
- Marcjanna Fornalska: Pamiętnik matki . Książka i Wiedza, Warsaw 1960 (German edition: Memories of a mother . Dietz, Berlin 1982, 8th edition).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fornalska, Małgorzata |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jasia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish communist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fajsłowice |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1944 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |