DOLEWSKI, Leon *
paper merchant / papiernik / kupiec / wholesaler
b: 20/02/1878 Warsaw, POLAND
d: 27/02/1946 Podkowa Leśna nr. Warsaw, POLAND
[] Cmentarz Powązkowski, Warsaw, POLAND
Alternative name spelling: Leonard.
Leon used to study in Wiesbaden, Germany when he was young. His brothers Marian and Franek attempted to kill Russian governor (most likely Gieorgi Skałon or Nikołaj Wonlarski) and then escaped to the USA in 1906/1907 to avoid procecution. Their father Bolesław (William) Dolewski also emigrated to the USA, as well as sister Waleria Niwińska. Leon decided to stay but was forced to leave Warsaw, he was sent to Baku as a punishment and only returned to Warsaw around 1922.
Over the years Dolewski family run paper warehouses and stores in various cities including Katowice, Poznań, Radom, Toruń and Warszawa.
Leon was still interned in Russia in 1923, when his wife was registering birth of Halina Maria and Leon Wacław in Warsaw. He was later exchanged for 2 Russians but it is not clear what year it was.
For years we though that Leon and Maria got married in Baku, until 2025 when my cousin Dagmara found their marriage record from Zawiercie! But then marriage alegata were issued month before the marriage, on the 6th of October 1908 in Baku.
Source: (1) Family notes (2) Birth certificate from Archiwum Państwowe in Warsaw, record # 71 / szukajwarchiwach.pl
photo: (1) Leon Dolewski in Spring 1932, Warsaw (2) Leon Dolewski in his office (3) Dolewski - Papier Tektura warehouse in Poznań by Foto J. Pluciński, Poznań (4) Marriage record # 208 - AP Katowice, Świętogen / metryki.genbaza.pl (5) Marriage alegata # 242 issued in Baku on the 6th of October 1908
oo 05/11/1908 Zawiercie, Silesia, POLAND DOLEWSKA née PASZKIEWICZ (COA RADWAN), Maria Lucyna *
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