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Stefania Wojtyła - nieznana historia krewnej Papieża

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Krutak J.

Wadoviana. Przegląd historyczno-kulturalny

2016

issue 19

99 - 111

Stefania Wojtyła (1891 - 1962) was a half-sister of Karol Wojtyła’s father. When Karol’s parents and his brother Edmund died, Stefania remained a next of kin of the later Pope. She was a techer by profession, worked in Biła City and in – situated nearby - Rybarzowice village, . During the Second World War she was initially unemployed, and then she was teaching in German schools in Biała and Dziedzice. At that time she signed German People’s List, so called The Deutsche Volksliste. After the war she was banned from working in the Biała county due to her attitude during the occupation of Poland. She decided to go to Stodoły village, near Rybnik in so-called Recovered Territories, where she took up a job of the headmaster of a school. She worked there until she went into retirement in 1958. The last years of her life she spent in Krakow, running a household of Karol Wojtyła - then a bishop.

Ludwik Dobija (1873-1944) - niezwykłe losy posła z Galicji

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Krutak J.

Wadoviana. Przegląd historyczno-kulturalny

2015

issue 18

42-69

Ludwik Dobija was born in 1873, in the Beskid village Rybarzowice, at that time located in Austrian Galicia. As a young man, he was expelled from the German school in Bielsko, and then he went to Vienna with intention of complaining to emperor Franz Joseph I. Although the plan seemed unreal, after many adventures it was fulfilled succesfully. When he came back to Rybarzowice, he commenced his brilliant political career as a supporter of Fr. Stanisław Stojałowski. He was a member of the local government in Rybarzowice, District Council in Biała, he was elected to Vienna Parliament, where he served as a deputy to the end of the Austro - Hungarian Empire (1907 – 1918). He became famous as a propagator of Polish education, he initiated establishing of more than fifty schools in Western Galicia. As a social and political activist he known for his scathing language and aroused extreme emotions. In 1909 he even survived assasination attempt on his life organized by Germans from Bielsko. In Rybarzowice he founded the People’s Library, Fire Brigade, helped to found and build a school, a church and a cemetery. During the First World War he was nine times arrested for pro-independence activities. After the liberation of Galicia he was a commissioner of the Polish Liquidation Commission in Żywiec, where he organized self-defense during Polish - Czech conflict (1919). When Poland regained its independence Ludwik went to the Kresy and in the village Beremowce (District Zborów) he bought a farm, and then he gave it to his daughter Wanda. Being a member of People’s National Union - political party, he was elected from constituency nr 43 as a deputy to Parliament of Poland (1922 – 1927). During World War II he was arrested by Gestapo and he was tortured and then he spent six months in jail. Probably as a result of these heavy experiences he signed Volksliste. Devastated mentally he died in 1944 and was buried in Rybarzowice.

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