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17.08.2021

The President of the IPN, Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D. is commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the death of Wojciech Korfanty

The President of the IPN, Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D. is commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the death of Wojciech Korfanty, Warszaw 17 August 2021. Photo: Mikołaj Bujak (IPN)
The President of the IPN, Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D. is commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the death of Wojciech Korfanty, Warszaw 17 August 2021. Photo: Mikołaj Bujak (IPN)
The monument dedicated to Wojciech Korfanty in Warszaw. Photo: Mikołaj Bujak (IPN)

 

On 17 August 2021, the President of the Institute of National Remembrance, Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D. honored Wojciech Korfanty, the leader of the Third Silesian Uprising and one of the Fathers of Polish Independence, by laying flowers at his Warsaw monument.

Wojciech Korfanty, a politician from Silesia, was one of the leaders of the Christian Democracy in Poland. Initially, he cooperated with Roman Dmowski, and strongly objected to the German denationalization policy against the Upper Silesia Poles – which led to his imprisonment. He became famous for his Reichstag speech on 25 October 1918, in which he demanded that all the territories annexed by Prussia, as well as Upper Silesia, be included in the future Polish state. He fought in the Greater Poland Uprising, and in 1920, was appointed the Polish plebiscite commissioner in Silesia. He was one of the main leaders of the second Silesian Uprising, and in the following year became the chief leader of the third one.

 


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