Stanisław Dubois

Stanisław Dubois
Stanisław Dubois
Personal details
Born 9 January 1901
Warsaw, Congress Poland
Died 21 August 1942 (aged 41)
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany
Nationality Polish
Political party Polish Socialist Party
Occupation Politician, activist

Stanisław Józef Dubois (9 January 1901 - 21 August 1942) was a Polish journalist and political activist who was a member of the Polish Socialist Party and the Youth Organisation of Workers' University Youth (Organizacji Młodzieży Towarzystwa Uniwersytetu Robotniczego). He took part in Third Silesian Uprising and Polish–Soviet War. Dubois was a creator of the Red Scouts (Czerwone Harcerstwo Towarzystwa Uniwersytetu Robotniczego). In years 1928-1933 he was a member of the Sejm, and a councillor in Warsaw from 1938. Dubois was a secretary in the redaction of Robotnik. As an opponent of Sanation he was imprisoned in 1930 in Brest Fortress and sentenced in the Brest trials for 3 years in prison. Dubois took part in the Polish resistance movement in World War II. He was arrested in 1940 and transported from Pawiak prison to Auschwitz-Birkenau,[1] where he conspired with Witold Pilecki and was executed in 1942.

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