Norbert Barlicki (6 June 1880, in Sieciechów,

Radom Governorate Radom Governorate (russian: Радомская Губерния, pl, Gubernia radomska) was a governorate of Congress Poland. History It was created in 1844 from the merger of the Sandomierz Governorate with Kielce Governorate. Its capital was ...

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– 27 September 1941, in

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) was a Polish publicist, lawyer and politician of the

Polish Socialist Party The Polish Socialist Party ( pl, Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, PPS) is a socialist political party in Poland. It was one of the most important parties in Poland from its inception in 1892 until its merger with the communist Polish Workers' P ...

(PPS). Barlicki was murdered during the

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in the

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.Free Europe: fortnightly review of international affairs: Volumes 10 à 12 1944 - "The issue of March 3 published an alleged statement by M. Kurylowicz, to whom another leading Polish Socialist, Norbert Barlicki, was supposed to have said as he lay dying in the Oswiecim concentration camp: "If you get back tell our comrades that we are at Oswiecim because some of our comrades wanted to liquidate us as we were inconvenient to them."

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1880 births 1941 deaths People from Kozienice County People from Radom Governorate Polish Socialist Party – Left politicians Polish Socialist Party politicians Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" politicians Government ministers of Poland Members of the Legislative Sejm of the Second Polish Republic Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1922–1927) Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1928–1930) Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1930–1935) 20th-century Polish lawyers Polish publicists Polish civilians killed in World War II Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp Politicians who died in Nazi concentration camps {{Poland-bio-stub

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