About Piotr Feliks
Lived 1883 – 1941 (aged 58). Piotr Feliks was a Polish educator and pedagogue.
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.
He was imprisoned and murdered during the Second World War at Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Who was Piotr Feliks?
Polish teacher and social activist (1883–1941)
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Piotr Feliks was born on 11 June 1883 in Bierówka.
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Piotr Feliks died on 3 July 1941 in Auschwitz.
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Piotr Feliks was an educator and pedagogue.
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Piotr Feliks was Polish.
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