Leaders of Toledo Polonia, 1830-2020 PDF Download

Author: Jacqueline Koralewski Konwinski
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Leaders of Toledo Polonia, 1830-2020 is a collection of 75 biographies of Polish-Americans in the fields of Art, Business and Work, Education, Faith, Government, History, Law, Medicine, Military and Sports in the Greater Toledo, Ohio area. Authors researched, documented and wrote these life stories to preserve and publicize local Polish-American history. The book highlights detailed Holocaust and World War II research, and includes four useful color maps of critical times in Polish history and six color pages of artists' works. The authors also investigated the genealogy of each person in Poland, the United States and other countries. Adam (Grochowski) Grant survived Mauthausen by painting pictures for the guards; he became a noted realist painter. Elizabeth Pawlicka Frankowski survived the Soviet Gulag; she studied nursing in Lebanon. Tadeusz Stocki also survived the Gulag; he fought with the Polish Free Army at Monte Cassino. Marian Wojciechowski led a Polish cavalry platoon; he was a community leader in Toledo. The oldest subject is Wenzilaus (Wenceslaus), a fur trapper who built a cabin on the cliffs overlooking the Maumee River in the village of Vistula sometime in the 1830s while one of the younger subjects is lawyer and litigator Richard S. Walinski. Walinski is an expert litigator in contract, corporate and commercial law with interests also in criminal defense, civil rights and insurance coverage. He represented Dana Corporation for over 30 years, in various courts nationally. He served as Chief Counsel for two Ohio attorneys eral, Democrat William J. Brown and Republican Betty D. Montgomery. The researchers and writers were amazed at the backgrounds and accomplishments of these 75 Polish-Americans and so will the reader. sports.