Flashcards: Polish communists

Jacques Rossi (October 10, 1909, Wrocław – June 30, 2004, Paris) was a Polish-French writer and polyglot.

Rosa Luxemburg (also Rozalia Luxenburg; Polish: Róża Luksemburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist of Polish-Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen.

Lev "Leo" Jogiches (Russian: Лев "Лео" Йогихес; "yū-gē'-khěs"; 1867 – 1919), also commonly known by the party name Jan Tyszka (Russian: Ян Тышка), was a Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany.

Kazimierz Mijal (September 15, 1910 – January 28, 2010) was a Polish communist politician and dissident, best known for founding the illegal Communist Party of Poland (Mijal) in opposition to the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP) in 1965.

Józef Unszlicht or Iosif Unshlikht (Russian: Ио́сиф Станисла́вович У́ншлихт; nicknames "Jurowski", "Leon") (December 31 [O.S. 19 December] 1879 - July 28, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary activist, one of the founders of the Cheka, and Soviet government official of Polish-Jewish extraction from the Masovian region.

Jakub Berman (26 December 1901 – 10 April 1984) was a prominent communist in prewar Poland.

Adam Schaff (10 March 1913, Lwów – 12 November 2006, Warsaw) was a Polish Marxist philosopher.

Tomasz Dąbal (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɔmaʂ ˈdɔmbal]; 29 December 1890 - 21 August 1937) was a Polish communist activist.

Stefan Staszewski, real name: Gustaw Szusterman (born in 1906, Warsaw – died 1989), was a Polish-Jewish communist apparatchik, originally in the Secretariat of the CC CPP (1930-1932), later a graduate and instructor at the Lenin School in Moscow.

Adolf Warski, born Jerzy Adolf Warszawski (April 20, 1868, Warsaw – August 21, 1937, Moscow), was a Jewish leader and theoretician of the communist movement in Poland.

Stefan Olszowski (born 28 August 1931) is a Polish politician, who was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party.

He joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in 1905, and was also a member of the Bolshevik Party.

Julian Baltazar Marchlewski (17 May 1866 — 22 March 1925) was a Polish communist.

Roman Romkowski born Natan Grünspan [Grinszpan]-Kikiel, (May 22, 1907 – July 1, 1965) was a communist official of Jewish background trained by Comintern in Moscow, who changed his name and settled into Warsaw after the Soviet takeover, and became second in command (the deputy minister) in Berman's Ministry of Public Security (MBP) during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Helena Wolińska-Brus (28 February 1919 – 26 November 2008) was a military prosecutor in postwar Poland with the rank of lieutenant-colonel (podpułkownik), involved in Stalinist regime show trials of the 1950s.

Edward Próchniak (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɛdvart ˈpruxɲak]; 4 December 1888, Puławy - 21 August 1937) was a leading Polish communist purged by Stalin.

Ignace Reiss (1899–1937)–AKA "Ignace Poretsky," "Ignatz Reiss," "Ludwig," "Ludwik", "Hans Eberhardt," "Steff Brandt," Nathan Poreckij, and "Walter Scott (an officer of the U.S. military intelligence)"–was one of the "Great Illegals" or Soviet spies who worked in third party countries where they were not nationals in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Albin Siwak (born 27 January 1933 in Wołomin) is a Polish politician.

Alfred Miodowicz (born June 28, 1929 in Poznań) is a former Polish politician and trade union activist.

Lucjan Szenwald (Polish pronunciation: [ˈlut͡sjan ˈʂɛnvalt]; March 13, 1909 in Warsaw – August 22, 1944 in Kurów) was a Polish poet and communist activist.

Daniel Singer (26 September 1926 – 2 December 2000) was a socialist writer and journalist.

Jean Jérôme (1906–1990) was a Polish Jew-French communist activist and Resistance member.

Karol Śliwka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkarɔl ˈɕlifka]; 13 March 1894, Bystřice, Austrian Silesia - 19 March 1943, Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp) was a Polish communist politician from Zaolzie region in the First Czechoslovak Republic.

Gustaw Przeczek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɡustaf ˈpʂɛt͡ʂɛk]; 30 May 1913 – 21 February 1974) was a Polish writer, poet, teacher and activist from the Zaolzie region of Cieszyn Silesia.

Włodzimierz Brus (Polish pronunciation: [vwoˌd͡ʑimiʂ ˈbrus]) (Born Beniamin Zylberberg, Płock, 23 August 1921 – 31 August 2007, Oxford) was an economist and party functionary in communist Poland.

Franciszek Malinowski (8 or 10 October 1897 – 27 or 28 February 1944) was a Polish activist, communist and politician.

Henryk Jasiczek (2 March 1919 – 8 December 1976) was a Polish journalist, poet, writer, and activist from the Zaolzie region.

Roman Werfel, born 1906, Lwów, died 2003, Great Britain, was a Jewish communist apparatchik in communist Poland, active during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland.

Saul Amsterdam (17 March 1898 – 1 November 1937) was a Polish communist activist.

Maksymilian Horwitz (pseudonym: Henryk Walecki; 1877-1937) was a leader and theoretician of the Polish communist movement.

Gustaw Morcinek (born Augustyn Morcinek; 24 August 1891 in Karviná, Austria-Hungary – 20 December 1963 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish writer, educator and later member of Sejm from 1952 to 1957.

Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944 in Fort Mont-Valérien, France), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II.

Jerzy Pański (1900 – 1979) was a Polish postwar communist activist, publisher and translator of French and Russian literature.