Józef Krakor

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Józef Krakor (born February 4, 1881 in Jedzbark near Olsztyn, died April 6, 1961 in Leszno, near Olsztyn) is a Polish activist in Warmia, a book collector. Curriculum vitae

He came from a peasant family. Since 1910 he was a resident of the Podolsztyn village of Leszno, where he belonged to the active collaborators of the People's Reading Society in Warmia. He donated material aid to this organization, and at the same time he collected books in Polish which he made available to the peasants.

At the time of the plebiscite, he was involved in the movement for the victory of the Polish option. In the 1930s he was promoting Polish education and reading in the land of Warmia, performing duties of the trustee of the 4th District of the Union of Poles in Germany and several times the husband of the trust of the Polish election committees during the elections to the Prussian parliament. Until September 1939 he was a librarian of the East Prussian Branch of the Central Polish Library in Germany and kept the collections of this institution during the war.

He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Gold Cross of Merit. Another Krakor, Viktor (born 1895), later a Catholic priest, was born in Jedzembek. Bibliography

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