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Wiesław Domaniewski
Wiesław Domaniewski (2 January 1896 – 29 October 1992) was a Polish businessman, financial adviser and economist, as well as one of the founders of the association ''Polish Veterans of World War II (United States), Polish Veterans of World War II''. He served as president of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America in the years 1969–1972. Life He was born on 2 January 1896 in Warsaw, then Congress Poland. Between 1918 and 1920, he served in the Polish Army, participating in the clashes in Volhynia, among others. In 1921, he graduated from the Department of Law and Political Science of the University of Warsaw. In the years 1921–1922, he worked in the Warsaw office of the Industrialists' Association of Bielsko-Biała. He studied in Berlin and Paris. After his return to Poland in 1927, he became an investigator at the Surveying Commission for Research of Production and Trading Conditions at the prime minister's cabinet, only to soon advance to become the head of the Econ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Korab-Janiewicz
Henryk Korab-Janiewicz (January 16, 1897 – August 11, 1971) was a Polish-American businessman, historian, social activist and three-time president of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America. Life and activity He was born on January 16, 1897, in Warsaw. In 1911, he became active in scouting and in the Związek Strzelecki, Riflemen's Association. In 1915, he was arrested by the Russians and transported deep east into Russia. Returned to Poland in 1919 and received a recommendation to enroll in a military trade school. Next, Korab-Janiewicz finished the Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa in Warsaw and worked as the chairman of the International Association of Trade and Consignment "Metokko" as well as in the Polish State Loan Agency. In 1924 he moved to Paris, where he studied and worked as one of secretaries general for the Association for Protection of Polish Immigrants in France. In 1928 he moved to the United States and settled in the state of New Jersey, where he launched the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |