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Jan Stanisław Jankowski was born in the village of Krassów Wielki near Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland. He was educated in Austro-Hungarian Galicia and co-found the National Worker's Union in 1906. In 1915, he joined the Polish Legions and fought in WW1. After WW1, with Poland's identity re-emerged, he co-founded the National Workers' Party in 1920 and remained a prominent leader among it until 1933; between 1921 and 1926, he was Poland's Minister of Labor. During WW2, with Poland occupied by German forces, he remained in the country and continued his work with labor and other social issues with the underground Polish state, and slowly becoming one of the leaders of the Polish resistance. On 31 Jul 1944, he was among the Polish leaders who ordered the Warsaw Uprising, which was to aid Russian efforts to drive out the German occupiers. Moscow, however, saw him as a threat; he was arrested by the Russian People's Commisariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) in Mar 1945. He was tortured and accused of being a Nazi collaborator. Jankowski died in a Russian prison, possibly murdered, in 1953.

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1. Anonymous says:
   5 Mar 2012 06:23:57 PM
   
   i am closely related to him
2. Anonymous says:
   21 Oct 2012 02:07:42 PM
   
   hi does anyone know what herb (clan) he came from? looking at the Polish map Jastrzebiec looks very likely as they were based around Lomza Minsk and Vilnius.
3. Anonymous says:
   25 Nov 2012 01:30:26 PM
   
   son Joseph and Julianna Oledzka;
   wife x1921 Helena Bankowska
   v-ce premier RP
4. Marie-Josée Talbot says:
   27 Feb 2013 10:31:02 AM
   
   Hello,
   I would like to contact the family of Jan Stanislaw Jankowski for genealogical informations.
   
   Could someone help me?
   
   Thanks,
   
   Marie-Josée Talbot
   Canada

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