Boleslaw Berger ps. Kuroki (born August 8, 1876 in Łachów - ca. 1942 in Warsaw) - Socialist activist, one of the main creators of the PPS Combat Organization.
He graduated from the middle school of hunters in Dąbrowa Górnicza, but for health reasons he did not work in the mine. In 1895 he was employed in spinning wool in Sosnowiec.
From 1896, a member of PPS. Arrested for his activities in 1897 and 1898. Again arrested in 1899 on the killing of an agent. Sentenced to 5 years of exile in Siberia. After three years he came back and returned to the Kingdom. From December 1903 to April 1904, a member of the Central Workers' Committee of the PPS. He organized the first combat circles and then the first groups of the PPS Conspiracy Organization.
In 1904 he was one of the organizers of the PPS manifesto at the Grzybowski Square in Warsaw, which took place on 13 November. They were protested against against the Russian army in connection with the Russian-Japanese war. Demonstrators under his leadership supplied Walery Slawek, which led to the end of bloody fighting with the tsarist police. It was fired by more than 60 PPS fighters, so it had to retreat. This was the first appearance of the Poles since the January Uprising.
After 1905, he was seriously ill with tuberculosis and went to Zakopane, then graduated from the combat school in Cracow. After finishing school, he came to the Kingdom as an OB PPS connector. Arrested on December 16, 1906 and imprisoned in the Warsaw Citadel. Unrecognized by the police and released at the end of 1907. He then stayed in Switzerland.
After the independence of PPS member. In 1927 he was a member of the Warsaw District Workers' Committee of the PPS and a councilor of the capital city of Warsaw. Since 1928 a former member of the PPS Revolutionary Faction. He died of tuberculosis in 1942.
November 9, 1932, honored with the Cross of Independence with Swords.
The members of the PPS and OB PPS were also his brothers Stanislaw and Kazimierz. Bibliography
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