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Maria Rogowska-Falska, also known as Maryna Falska (2 February 1877, Dubno – 7 September 1944, Warsaw) – was a Polish teacher, pedagogue, activist.
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Maria Rogowska-Falska, also known as Maryna Falska (2 February 1877, Dubno – 7 September 1944, Warsaw) – was a Polish teacher, pedagogue, activist.
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Biography She was born Maria Rogowska into a noble family in Dubno on 2 February 1877. She spend her early years in Warsaw and Łódź, where she was studying pedagogy and achieved a teaching diploma. After studies she was involved in independence activities of PPS along with her brothers, she was spreading culture and social knowledge among laborers. She was using her alias ‘Hilda’ and was arrested on several occasions for illegal PPS’ printing works at the time. She was imprisoned with Józef Piłsudski. In 1905 she was arrested, incarcerated and exiled in Deep Russia. She married well-known doctor and social activist Leon Falski, whom she possibly had met in London, where both of them had been hiding from Okhrana. Back in Poland they had a baby-girl and moved to Volozhyn, Lithuania, where Leon started to work as a country doctor, treating Poles, Jews and Lithuanians. In 1912 he died in Volozhyn curing typhoid fever during its outbreak. Maria left for her friends in Moscow, where her daughter died at the age of 2. From 1917 to 1918, when she was running boarding house for Polish teenagers and children in Kiev, she met Janusz Korczak and implemented his methodology of…
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Decorations and awards In recognition of all her work she was decorated with the Gold Cross of Merit, she was also posthumously honored with the Officer's Cross of Polonia Restitutia by the Polish Council of State in 1947. On 14 April 1985 Maria Rogowska-Falska was honored with the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.