Anna Kopińska

Grave of Anna Kopińska at the Powązki Military Cemetery

Anna Kopińska from Sieczko pseud. Energiczna, Rekrutka (born 25 July 1880 in Szymanow, died 26 July 1956 in Warsaw) - socialist and communist activist.

She was a daughter of Pawel, she had only completed 2 classes of elementary school, she worked from childhood. From 1896 she lived with her parents in Warsaw, where she was a worker in a comb factory, and from 1903 until the outbreak of World War I a polisher in a cladding factory. In December 1904 she married PPS Józef Kopiński, who in 1905 also joined the PPS. She took part in the revolution of 1905-1907, being a salesman and agrarian PPS. 10 May 1906 participated in a demonstration organized in connection with the opening of the First State Duma (during this demonstration her husband was mortally wounded by Cossacks). After splitting into PPS XI 1906 joined the PPS-Left. She worked in the District Labor Committee in Warsaw, and since 1911 she was the leader of the Warsaw Workers' Committee of the PPS-Left. In 1914 she co-organized the workers' kitchen in Wola and was the cook of the "Dresden Manufaktura" as a cook. 1916-1918 Housewife of the Club. Rechniewski, the press distributor of the PPS-Left and the liaison officer in Lodz and Sosnowiec. 1918 was elected to the Judiciary Committee of the Labor Board of the Economic Council, 15 December 1918 took part in the last Convention of the PPS-Left, and the next day in the First Congress of the Cracow, where she soon became a member of the District Committee in Wola. Then she worked in the central technology of the KPRP and was a coordinator of the KPRP Central Committee and Maria Koszutska permanent coordinator. In 1923 he was imprisoned and for several months imprisoned in "Siberia" prison. Between 1924-1925 she worked with Wiktor White on the Warsaw Pact / CPP's Technical Committee, and after his death he led this technique. 1926-1928 worked in the editorial office of the "Tribune" and later in Central Technics (to liquidate the CPP in 1938). Later she became a cook at the General Insur- ance Insurer (PZUW). In 1942 she joined the PPR, after the war she became a cook in PZUW, and from 1949 - a cloakroom at the Party School at the KC PZPR. In 1955 she was awarded the Order of the First Class Labor Medal. He was buried on the military Powazki. Bibliography

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