Stanisław Dubois


Stanisław Józef Dubois 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.

Biography

He took part in the Third Silesian Uprising and in the Polish–Soviet War. Dubois was a creator of the Red Scouts. 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 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. He was held at the Brest Fortress and while imprisoned, run in the 1930 Polish legislative election. He was released the following month.
His great-grandfather, Charles August Dubois was a French officer of Napoleon's Grande Armée.

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, where he conspired with Witold Pilecki to gather intelligence. He was executed by the Germans in 1942.

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