Piotr Feliks

Piotr Feliks's Portrait

Piotr Feliks (11 June 1883 in Bierówka near Jasło – 3 or 12 August 1941) was a Polish political, social and education activist.

Feliks, the son of a labourer, graduated from gymnasium in Jasło, and then studied philology at the Jagiellonian University, spending the last year of his studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He was hired as a teacher at the Juliusz Słowacki Polish Grammar School in Orłowa in Cieszyn Silesia (now Orlová, Czech Republic). He became the director of the school four years later.[1]

He was imprisoned and murdered during the Second World War at Auschwitz concentration camp.

References

  1. ↑ "Piotr Feliks". Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny (in Polish). Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Archived from the original on 18 February 2025. Retrieved 28 May 2025.