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Aniela Wolberg
Aniela Wolberg (14 October 1907 – 11 October 1937) was a Polish anarchist activist. Biography Wolberg was born into a wealthy Polish-Jewish family in the town of Częstochowa, Congress Poland. After completing her ''Matura#Poland, matura'' she moved to Kraków to study at the Jagiellonian University. It was here that she is believed to have first encountered anarchist ideas through the group of anarchism in Bulgaria , Bulgarian anarchists who were active at the university during this time. Wolberg was one of the founders of the underground newspaper ''Proletariat'', which espoused anarchism at a time in which it was illegal to do so in Poland. In 1926 she became a member of the Anarchist Federation of Poland, before moving to Paris, France, in that year. Whilst in France Wolberg became involved with ''Walka'', a Polish journal of anarchism, and made links with French and Spanish anarchists. It was while in Paris that Wolberg would become acquainted with the Chinese anarchist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Częstochowa
Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (administrative division) since 1999, and was previously the capital of the Częstochowa Voivodeship (1975–1998). However, Częstochowa is historically part of the Lesser Poland region, not of Silesia, and before 1795, it belonged to the Kraków Voivodeship. Częstochowa is located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is the largest economic, cultural and administrative hub in the northern part of the Silesian Voivodeship. The city is known for the famous Pauline monastery of Jasna Góra, which is the home of the Black Madonna painting, a shrine to the Virgin Mary. Every year, millions of pilgrims from all over the world come to Częstochowa to see it. The city also was home to the Jewish Frankist movement in the late 18th and the 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
