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Stefan Łodzieski
Stefan Łodzieski (1882 - April 24, 1951) was a Polish-American baker and social activist. He was one of the founders of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America and served as its second president between 1944 and 1951. Early life Born in Wierzbno in 1882, Łodzieski immigrated to the United States in 1902, where he settled in Lakewood, Ohio. In 1911, he started his own bakery, which he eventually made into a bakery shop chain called ''Lakewood Bakery''. He was active in the Polish National Defense Committee and the ''Komitet Wykonawczy Szkół Dokształcających''. Following World War I, he supported the Polish Welfare Association, efficiently helping new Polish immigrants. World War II and aftermath Łodzieski was one of the founders of the National Committee of Americans of Polish Extraction (KNAPP) and served as one of the presidents of this organization. In 1943, he became the treasurer and then, in the years 1946–1951, the vice-president of KNAPP. He generously sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciszek Januszewski
Franciszek Januszewski (November 23, 1886 – June 10, 1953) was a Polish-American social activist and the publisher of Detroit's ''Dziennik Polski''. He was also one of the founders of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America and its president twice (1943–44 and 1951–53). Before World War II Born on November 23, 1886, in Łomża, Januszewski became active in the Polish Socialist Party in 1905 and, fearing arrest, had to immigrate to the United States two years later. He joined the local "Sokół" club in Cleveland, Ohio, where he finished the Business College. In 1912, he moved to Detroit and became active in the Polish National Defense Committee in Chicago. In 1913. Januszewski started working for ''Dziennik Polski'' in Detroit as an advertising agent. He eventually became the owner of the journal in 1930 and largely contributed to its expansion. Social Activism After the outbreak of World War II, he worked for the cause of Polish independence. He was one of the initiato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest. Of the 50 List of states and territories of the United States, U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-largest by area. With a population of nearly 11.9 million, Ohio is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, seventh-most populous and List of U.S. states and territories by population density, tenth-most densely populated state. Its List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city is Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, with the two other major Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan centers being Cleveland and Cincinnati, alongside Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, Akron, Ohio, Akron, and Toledo, Ohio, Toledo. Ohio is nicknamed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emigrants From Congress Poland To The United States
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanently move to a country). A migrant ''emigrates'' from their old country, and ''immigrates'' to their new country. Thus, both emigration and immigration describe migration, but from different countries' perspectives. Demographers examine push and pull factors for people to be pushed out of one place and attracted to another. There can be a desire to escape negative circumstances such as shortages of land or jobs, or unfair treatment. People can be pulled to the opportunities available elsewhere. Fleeing from oppressive conditions, being a refugee and seeking asylum to get refugee status in a foreign country, may lead to permanent emigration. Forced displacement refers to groups that are forced to abandon their native country, such as by en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Deaths
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1882 Births
Events January * January 2 ** The Standard Oil Trust (business), Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates. ** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in New York at the beginning of a lecture tour of the United States and Canada. * January 5 – Charles J. Guiteau is found guilty of the assassination of James A. Garfield (President of the United States) and sentenced to death, despite an insanity defense raised by his lawyer. * January 12 – Holborn Viaduct power station in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation. February * February 3 – American showman P. T. Barnum acquires the elephant Jumbo from the London Zoo. March * March 2 – Roderick Maclean fails in an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria, at Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor. * March 18 (March 6 Old Style) – The Principality of Serbia becomes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Committee Of Americans Of Polish Extraction
National Committee of Americans of Polish Extraction, (Polish: ''Komitet Narodowy Amerykanów Polskiego Pochodzenia'' or ''KNAPP'')also known as the National Committee of Americans of Polish Descent or its Polish abbreviation KNAPP , was a Polish-American organization active in the years 1942-1959 in the United States. KNAPP was created in 1942 by Polish activists in the United States to lobby for Poland's independence during World War II. The organization viewed Stalin as a threat to Poland, and campaigned against British and American politicians as they made concessions giving Poland to the Soviet Union. Many Polish Americans joined the cause of the KNAPP and other Polonia organizations during World War II; the group's membership and public visibility peaked in 1944. In 1944, KNAPP started a nationwide Polish American Congress to assemble Polish American leaders for an annual meeting in Buffalo, New York. Following the Yalta Agreement, KNAPP issued messages to its supporters in o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
