Lucjusz Kupferwasser
Polish-American activist
Lucjusz Kupferwasser (born in 1888 in Lublin, Congress Poland) was a Polish-American social activist and one of the founders of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America.
Early life
In 1905, he was expelled from school for his participation in the student strikes happening in the Russian Empire. In danger of being arrested, he immigrated to the United States in 1910, where he initially settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He was active in the Polish National Alliance and the Polish National Defense Committee and served as a financial secretary in the latter organization.
On the front
When the United States joined the Entente in World War I, Kupferwasser volunteered for the American Army, in which he served as an aviation mechanic. He was strongly poisoned by chemical weapons on the Western Front. Upon his return to the United States, he moved back to Cleveland. In 1935, he moved to Chicago. He was active in the Polish Maritime and Colonial League as well as the American Polonia Council.
World War II and aftermath
After the outbreak of World War II, Kupferwasser was one of the founders of the National Committee of Americans of Polish Extraction (KNAPP), of which he became one of directors in 1945.
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