Leopold Daab

Leopold Zdzisław Daab (born 4 May 1881 in Szczekociny, died in August 1944 in Warsaw) is a Warsaw entrepreneur and social activist of German origin, co-owner of carpentry, an activist of Prague local government, owner of tenements and townhouses in Warsaw, Praga.

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He was the son of Francis Daab and Ludwika. Uhh, evangelicals.

Around 1890 Leopold Daab raised three tenement houses at the junction with Stalowa Street. From 1896 he owned the corner property at the junction of Stalowa and Czynszowa Streets, in Warsaw's Praga district. The Daab family belonged to the odd side of the Cieszyn Street from Wileńska Street to Stalowa Street, where there are properties numbered 1, 3, 5.

Leopold Daab was a member of the Prague Citizens' Committee during the First World War. The Committee organized material assistance for the poorest inhabitants of Prague. He also hired trucks and coaches.

He was a co-owner of a carpentry at 6/8 Skierniewicka Street, which he and his family had been leading. In the years 1939-1944 there was a conspiratorial house in the carpentry. There were training of youths of the ZWZ-AK, fugitives from the Warsaw Ghetto were kept, and fictitious people were hired. During the insurrectionary battles in Wola in August 1944, he was driven out by the occupying forces of the carpentry shop with his closest friends and shot dead.

About the Daab family carpentry, Bohdan Cheszko mentions in his story "Wióry" (1970), who during the occupation was working there. As reported in his story, Bohdan Czeshko, Leopold - unlike his brother Edward - declared Polish nationality. Leopold's brother was Edward Daab.

He was the cousin of Adolf Daaba, the councilor of Warsaw from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Bibliography

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