Bronisław Koraszewski (1863–1924) –

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reporter and social activist in

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. He concentrated on fight with germanisation in the Opole region by editing in Polish and creating Polish organisations. He was the founder, editor and reporter of '' Gazeta Opolska'' and of still existing People's Bank in Opole.T. Hunt Tooley, ''National Identity and Weimar Germany. Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border,. 1918–1922'', U of Nebraska Press, 1997, p. 15, His name was given to one of Opole's streets that leads from the

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to the

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where his house once stood.

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1863 births 1924 deaths People from Opole Polish male writers {{Poland-bio-stub