Bolesław Domański (January 14, 1872 – April 21, 1939) was a famous

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, and was the President of the

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from 1931 to 1939. He served as the Parson of the Zakrzewo Parish from 1903 to 1939. Domański was a fighter for the rights of the Polish minority in Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, at the time a

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province on the border of

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and

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, as well as for the rights of Polish emigrants in the

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Life

Bolesław Domański was born on January 14, 1872 in

Przytarnia Przytarnia ) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Karsin, within Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Karsin, south of Kościerzyna, and south-west of the regional c ...

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1872 births 1939 deaths 20th-century Polish Roman Catholic priests Catholic clergy of the Prussian partition People from Kościerzyna County {{RC-clergy-stub