Waclaw Figurski
Waclaw Figurski pseud. Karaluk (born 25 September 1897 in Warsaw, died 22 January 1977) is a Communist activist, revolutionary.
He finished 4th grade in primary school and became an office trainee in a paper mill, 1913 released for working with striking workers. 1915 evacuated to Petrograd, V 1916 appointed to the tsarist army, VII 1917 joined the 2nd Rifle Division (from the 1st Corps General J. Dowbor-Muśnicki) forming in Zubcewo near Rżewa. Soon, along with a group of other Poles, he passed to the 284th Russian Army in Visegrad, IX 1917 joined the SDPRR (b), shortly thereafter participated in the fight against the anti-Communist troops under Wiaźma. In 1918, he became chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council of Workers and Soldier Delegates (RDRiŻ). In 1918 he returned to the country and on 9 September 1918 he applied for a job in Lithuania, where he tried to get to the east, but was arrested by the German authorities for lack of proper documents and imprisoned in Saulia until November 1918. After his dismissal went to Vilnius and joined the local RDR. I-III 1919 was chairman of the KPLiB District Committee (KD) and head of the department at the People's Commissariat of Labor of the Republic of Lithuania-Belarus. Then he was sent by the KC KPLiB to work in the army as secretary of the commissioner of the 3rd Regiment of the Lithuanian Division. He organized the Revolutionary Committee in Vladivostok and took part in the fighting for the city, 17th May 1919 wounded and taken prisoner by the anti-communist Lithuanian troops. In connection with the exchange of prisoners of war in 1920, he was in Soviet Russia, where he became a plenipotentiary of the Western Front Revolutionary Military Council in Smolensk, later deputy of the prisoners of war in Petrograd, and (from X 1920) deputy member of the Polish Office at the Petrograd Gubernian RCP (b. ). In 1921 he took part in suppressing the uprising in Kronstadt. Since 1921 weaver at the Petrograd factory, VII 1922 returned to Poland and settled in Żyrardów. He worked in the Association of Cotton Products "Wola" in Warsaw. From 1922 to 1932, he was a member of the KPP Warsaw Committee. 1924 was active in the Trade Union of Workers of Chemical Industry in Poland and the Trade Union of Workers and Workers of Tobacco Industry. 1925-1929 worked at the Kaiser's Ward in Warsaw and the district, 1933-1939 seasonal worker on public works and supervisor on robots. 1940 forced prisoner to the Reich, IV-X 1941 imprisoned in the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen. Released by illness, he returned to Żyrardów, and since 1943 he has been working in a Warsaw soap factory. Since 1947 in the PPR, then the PZPR. 1953-1958 worker of Silk Factory in Milanówek, later on regret. He lived in the House of Veterans Workers Movement in Warsaw. Decorated with, among others. The Order of the Red Star and the Officer's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland. Bibliography
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