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Gustaw Przeczek
Gustaw Przeczek (; 30 May 1913 – 21 February 1974) was a Polish minority in the Czech Republic, Polish writer, poet, teacher and activist. Biography Przeczek was born in a large coal miner's family in the village of Lazy (Orlová), Lazy which lies in the coal basin. He graduated from schools in Orlová and Lazy and in 1933 from a teachers' seminary in Ostrava. Przeczek later taught as a teacher in Polish schools in Bystřice (Frýdek-Místek District), Bystřice and Lazy. During World War II he was arrested during mass arrests of Polish intelligentsia and in 1940–1945 incarcerated in Dachau concentration camp, Dachau and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, KL Gusen I Nazi concentration camps, concentration camp. In the latter camp Przeczek was forced to quarry granite in ''Gusen'' and ''Kastenhofen'' stone pits. After the war he administered a Polish school in Orlová and in 1951–1970 was a director of the Polish primary school in Třinec. Przeczek leaned towards communis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazy (Orlová)
(Polish: ) is a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of Orlová in 1946. It has a population of 274. The name is cultural in origin and in Polish denotes an arable area obtained by slash-and-burn technique. History The settlement was first mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called ''Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis'' from around 1305 as ''item in Lazy villa Paczconis''. It meant that the village was in the process of location (the size of land to pay a tithe from was not yet precise). The village could have been founded by Benedictine monks from an Orlová abbey and also it could a part of a larger settlement campaign taking place in the late 13th century on the territory of what would later be known as Upper Silesia. Politically the village belonged initially to the Duchy of Teschen, formed in 1290 in the process of feudal fragmentation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
