Karol Śliwka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Karol Śliwka

Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament and poland nation politician

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1894

Place of Birth: Bystřice, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 19-Mar-1943

Profession: politician, journalist

Nationality: Poland, Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Karol Śliwka

  • Karol Sliwka (Polish pronunciation: ['kar?l '?lifka]; 13 March 1894, Bystrice, Austrian Silesia - 19 March 1943, Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp) was a Polish communist politician from Zaolzie region in the First Czechoslovak Republic.
  • Sliwka was one of the most prominent political leaders of the Polish minority in Zaolzie and a member of National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic from 1925 to 1938. Sliwka was born son of a metallurgy worker in Bystrice (Bystrzyca).
  • After finishing five classes of elementary school in his native village he entered the Polish gymnasium (grammar school) in Cieszyn.After outbreak of World War I he volunteered to army of General Józef Haller but after several months became a prisoner of war in Russia from 1915 to 1918 (mostly in Kaluga).
  • In 1917 he joined the Bolshevik Party.
  • In 1921 he became an Executive Committee member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
  • He was the editor of the newspaper Glos Robotniczy ('Workers Voice').
  • Sliwka was the foremost leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia within the Polish minority.
  • He was an advocate of unity between Polish, Czech and German communists in Ceský Tešín.Sliwka represented the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the Czechoslovak National Assembly between 1925-1938.
  • As a parliamentarian, Sliwka fought for the rights of the Polish minority in the Czechoslovak Republic.
  • Following the cession of Zaolzie territory to Poland, Sliwka and another Polish parliamentarian Leon Wolf, leader of the League of Silesian Catholics, lost their parliamentary seats on 30 October 1938.
  • Other parliamentarians representing national minorities suffered a similar fate.
  • Polish authorities adopted strict measures against communist activists.
  • Sliwka and another activist Franciszek Kraus have been jailed in Mokotów Prison in Warsaw.
  • He was released after he signed a testimony saying he is breaking up with communist movement.As a result, he was expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
  • In April 1940 he was arrested by Gestapo and jailed in Moravská Ostrava and later in other towns.
  • In 1942 he was sentenced for five years in prison, which he served in Cieszyn.
  • Sliwka was eventually transferred to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, where he officially died in March 1943.
  • After World War II he was dishonoured in Czechoslovakia for alleged betrayal of communist ideals in 1938.
  • He was exonerated in 1969.

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