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Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
About Stanisław Piasecki
- Stanislaw Piasecki (15 December 1900 – 12 June 1941) was a Polish right-wing activist, politician and journalist of partially Jewish descent.
- Piasecki was born on 15 December 1900 in Lwów, Austrian Galicia.
- He was the son of scouting activist Eugeniusz Piasecki and Gizela Siberfeld, a daughter from a wealthy Jewish family, who converted to Catholic faith during the wedding and took the name Maria Piasecka He was related to the athlete Jadwiga Wajs.
- In his late teens, Piasecki fought in the Battle of Lemberg (1918), and the Polish-Ukrainian War.
- He also fought in the Polish-Soviet War of 1920–21 as a volunteer. In the 1920s, he studied architecture at University of Jan Kazimierz in Lwow, and law at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.
- He also was a member of the right-wing student organization Academic Union All-Polish Youth.
- In 1935, Piasecki founded his own literary weekly magazine, Prosto z mostu, which presented Polish right-wing publicists and writers.
- His ambition was to create a right-wing alternative to the liberal magazine Wiadomosci Literackie.The journal has been described as antisemitic and pro-Nazi , but by spring 1939 Piasecki begun criticizing Nazism pointing out its moral contradictions and ideological conflicts, as well as moral crisis His Jewish background was a source of ridicule among critics, who used it to criticize or explain his antisemitic views His notable critics included Polish poet of Jewish descent, Julian Tuwim, who published a satire in the leftist magazine Szpilki attacking Piasecki and pointing out his background. In September 1939, during the Invasion of Poland, he volunteered to the Polish Army.
- He was so shocked by the German atrocities that he repented his previous antisemitism Hiding from the NKVD, he returned to Warsaw and joined underground National Party.
- In December 1939, first issue of underground magazine Walka (Struggle) was released, with Piasecki as its editor in chief.
- The office of the magazine was located at Piasecki's apartment, and the money for the publication came from Arkadia Restaurant, owned by him.
- Tadeusz Gajcy and Witold Lutoslawski were among the guests at his restaurant. In December 1940, Piasecki was arrested by the Gestapo.
- After several months of tortures, he was sent to Pawiak, with his wife kept in the same complex.
- On 12 June 1941 Piasecki was shot near the village of Palmiry.
- Piasecki's mother survived the war after Eugeniusz Piasecki obtained a falsified birth certificate from local priestKonstanty Ildefons Galczynski, who coworked with Piasecki in the late 1930s, dedicated a poem to him, "Stan’s Glasses" (“Okulary Staszka").
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