Augustyn Łukosz 1884 - 1940

Born 17.8.1884 in Stonava / Stonawa
Died 27.10.1940 in Gusen

Biography

Augustyn Łukosz was born in Stonava, in the present-day Czech Republic. He became a railwayman, lived in Łąka and held Polish citizenship. For three years he attended the Polish primary school in Stonava. He acquired his subsequent education as an autodidact. From the age of 14 he worked in the mines. He was active in the socialist movement even as a young man, and later became a prominent activist of the Polska Socjalistyczna Partia Robotnicza (Polish Socialist Workers’ Party). He began his military service in Kołomyja in 1908.

After the First World War broke out he was sent to the eastern front. Once the war had ended and he had returned home, he became a supporter of cooperatives and workers’ housing. He was an activist in many Polish organisations and cultural and educational associations, and he was an organiser of the workers’ educational and gymnastics association Siła (Strength). He retired in 1937 due to ill health. After the annexation of Zaolzie by Poland, he was elected a member of the Silesian Sejm [parliament]. He was arrested on 17 September 1939 by the Gestapo and imprisoned until 12 December 1939 in the Skrochovice internment camp near Opava. Some time later he was released, but re-arrested on 16 April 1940 and imprisoned at Cieszyń. From there he was sent in a mass transport to the Dachau concentration camp. On 5 June 1940 he was deported to the Mauthausen/Gusen concentration camp. He died on 27 October 1940 in Gusen.

Jerzy Klistała

 

References:

 

Jerzy Klistała, Martyrologium mieszkańców Zaolzia w latach 1939–1945, Tom II – słownik biograficzny [Martyrology of the inhabitants of Zaolzie in the period 1939–1945, volume II – Biographical Dictionary] (Cieszyn 2013).

Translation into English: Joanna White

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