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Bolesław Ścibiorek 1906–1945
Bolesław Ścibiorek was a member of the Union of Rural Youth and a peasant
activist with distinctly left-wing views. Above all, he was an exceptional
pedagogue and a youth educator. As a teacher in rural schools he left lasting
recollections in the memory of his alumni. During the occupation Bolesław
Ścibiorek was a soldier of the Peasants’ Battalions and the head of the Directorate
of Civil Resistance in the Łódzkie voivodeship. After the end of the war he
was rebuilding the free homeland as the Chairman of the Chief Provisional Board
and then, a secretary of the Board of the Rural Youth Union of the Polish Republic
“Wici”. Initially, he was an activist of the “Lublin” People’s Party, a member
of its Supreme Council and a deputy to the State National Council. In November
1945 together with a group of Stanisław Bańczyk he joined the Polish People’s
Party guided by Stanisław Mikołajczyk where he took up a role of deputy secretary-
general. His involvement in the PPP’s political activity did not last long.
Bolesław Ścibiorek was assassinated on December 5, 1945 in his private flat in
Łódź
Bolesław Ścibiorek 1906–1945
Bolesław Ścibiorek was a member of the Union of Rural Youth and a peasant
activist with distinctly left-wing views. Above all, he was an exceptional
pedagogue and a youth educator. As a teacher in rural schools he left lasting
recollections in the memory of his alumni. During the occupation Bolesław
Ścibiorek was a soldier of the Peasants’ Battalions and the head of the Directorate
of Civil Resistance in the Łódzkie voivodeship. After the end of the war he
was rebuilding the free homeland as the Chairman of the Chief Provisional Board
and then, a secretary of the Board of the Rural Youth Union of the Polish Republic
“Wici”. Initially, he was an activist of the “Lublin” People’s Party, a member
of its Supreme Council and a deputy to the State National Council. In November
1945 together with a group of Stanisław Bańczyk he joined the Polish People’s
Party guided by Stanisław Mikołajczyk where he took up a role of deputy secretary-
general. His involvement in the PPP’s political activity did not last long.
Bolesław Ścibiorek was assassinated on December 5, 1945 in his private flat in
Łódź
Piotr Szymanek (1895–1975) alias “Semko”, “Piotr”
The paper presents the biography of Piotr Szymanek, a youth and peasant
movement activist who came from Radomsko area. Since 1918 he belonged to
the Polish Peasant Party “Liberation”. Since 1931 he was a secretary of the
Regional Board of Polish Peasant Party in Piotrków and a member of Province
Board of the party in Lodz.
During the German occupation he co-organized resistance movement in
Piotrków and Radomsko area. He cooperated with the Armed Combat Union
and a squad of the Home Army of Stanisław Karliński “Burza”. Later he was an
active member of the Peasant Party “Roch”, he was also a soldier of Peasants’
Battalions. After merging Peasants’ Battalions and the Home Army he was
nominated the regional chief officer of Peasant Safety Guard.
Since 1945 he was a member of Supreme Council and Supreme Executive
Committee of Peasant Party in Lodz, between 1946–1949 he had a function of
a vice-president of Supreme Executive Committee of Peasant Party. Between
1947–1950 he occupied the position of Lodz provincial governor.
In the years 1956–1959 he was a member of the United People’s Party and
between 1957–1958 he was the chairman of the Board of the Province People’s
Council in Lodz. Between 1957–1965 he was a member of the parliament of the
Polish People’s Republic