Stanisław Dubois

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 of the Polish Socialist Party, as well as the Youth Organisation of the Workers' University Society (Organizacja Młodzieży Towarzystwa Uniwersytetu Robotniczego).^[1]

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Stanisław Dubois
Stanisław Dubois
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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

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He became involved in pro-independence and socialist activism as a student at Wojciech Górski Gymnasium in Warsaw.^[2] After World War I he joined the Polish Socialist Party, and took part in the Silesian Uprisings and the Polish–Soviet War.^[2]

Dubois was a founder and chairman of the Red Scouts (Czerwone Harcerstwo Towarzystwa Uniwersytetu Robotniczego). He served as a member of Sejm (lower house of parliament) from 1928 to 1933, and as a Warsaw city councillor from 1938. He also worked as an editorial secretary for the Robotnik (lit. 'Worker') daily newspaper.

As an opponent of Sanation, he was charged in 1930 with communist agitation in Lwów, and sentenced to 3 years in prison during the Brest trials.^[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]

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Stanisław Dubois

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