Waleria Fuksa

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Waleria Fuksa from Sołtysikówna House (born 16 March 1914 in Stryj, died April 1, 2008 in Warsaw) - Polish cultural and Polish activist.

Graduated in Polish Philology at Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. After studying as a master of philosophy, she took the position of assistant professor. Kazimierz Kolbuszewski, then prof. Julius Kleiner. During this period she also collaborated with the Lviv branch of the Polish Radio.

At the outbreak of World War II, she stayed in Lviv, which was under Soviet occupation. From 1940, she cooperated with ZWZ and then AK. In the underground she got a degree of corporal. In 1946, she left for England where her husband was an officer of the Polish Army and a RAF aviator.

From 1949, she lived with her husband in Argentina, where she became involved in the social and cultural life of the local Polonia. A supporter of the vocation of the Polish School Mother and Polish Scouts in Argentina. A teacher of native subjects, among others, in the Polish Quarter and the Polish House in Buenos Aires. Since 1964, lecturer at the Department of Polish Literature (in Spanish) of the Catholic University of Santa Maria de Buenos Aires. Member of the 1960s, Organizing Committee of the Library, and later the Polish Library Association. Ignacy Domeyk who contributed to the creation of the Polish Library. Ignacio Domeyki in Buenos Aires, sponsored by her friend Karol Orłowski. From 1956 to 1966 she was the director and director of the Polish "Our Theater" in Buenos Aires. Editor of "Voice of Poland", the official organ of the Association of Poles in Argentina and journalist "Kurier Polskiego". She dealt with the distribution of Parisian "Kultura" in South America, she was a close associate of writer Witold Gombrowicz.

After her husband's death and political changes in Poland, she returned to her homeland and settled in Warsaw where she died on April 1, 2008. She was buried on April 25, 2008, at the Cemetery at ul. Church in Wodzisław Śląski. Honors Bibliography

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