W służbie społecznej – losy Polaków z Wolnego Miasta Gdańska na przykładzie dr. Władysława Pniewskiego, dr. Franciszka Kręckiego i dr. Bernarda Filarskiego
In community service – the fate of Poles from the Free City of Danzig on the example of Dr. Władysław Pniewski, Dr. Franciszek Kręcki and Dr. Bernard Filarski

Summary/Abstract: Before 1939 Gdansk was inhabited by a relatively small but vibrant Polish community. Organized in numerous cultural, educational and social associations, it formed a cohesive group of often related individuals. They came from various cities of both Gdansk Pomerania and the hinterland of Poland, directed to Gdansk with the task of supporting the Polish movement, while some came from the inhabitants of Kashubia, who had been fighting for the Polishness of Gdansk Pomerania for centuries. Such were Dr. Franciszek Kręcki, Dr. Bernard Filarski and Dr. Władysław Pniewski. Each of these three came from different localities, but they tied their fate to Gdansk. They were united by their common social and patriotic work, which was a continuity of the activities of each of them from the times of the Prussian partition, as well as by their friendship and the ideas propounded by the Young Kashubian movement. In the lives of each of them, work for Polish youth played a huge role. They fought for the establishment of schools with the Polish language, and took care of youth organizations. Arrested for their activities at the beginning of the war in the fall of 1939, they were executed on 1940 in a forest near the Stutthof camp.

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