Zelinsky, Juliusz

The son of Polish peasants Jacob Zielinsky and Veronica (before marriage - Oshvaldovskaya). He received a certificate of maturity in 1901 at a German teacher training college in Tuchola . From the academic year 1901/1902 he began work in the education system: first at a school in Kozlov ( gmina Lasin ), then in Buka Pomorsky ( gmina Yablonovo-Pomorsk ), where he was transferred in 1905 after the second teacher’s exam. Since 1912, he worked in Bialokhov, where in November of the same year he married Maria Domansky, who was the daughter of Francis Domansky and the sister of the priest Boleslav Domansky , who was one of the most active figures of the Union of Poles in Germany and rector of the parish in Zakšev . In the same year, he took over the leadership of the school in Bialokhov after his father-in-law, who retired.

During the First World War, Juliusz Zielinsky was considered a subject of Prussia . He was called up on January 12, 1915. Due to myopia and vice, the heart was declared unfit for military service. After training in July, he was sent to the eastern front with the rank of non-commissioned officer , where he served as a nurse. In early August, he was wounded in the battle of Narew . After the cure, he was sent to France at a position near the Somme and Oise rivers, where he remained until January 1916. After several hospitalizations due to heart failure, he was dismissed from the army on August 17, 1916. He returned to his family in Byalokhovo and continued to work at school.

In the years 1919-1920, after Poland gained independence, Zielinsky actively participated in the reconstruction of Polish state structures in Pomerania . was commandant of the Civil Guard. For his activities he was awarded in 1927 the Honorary Badge of the Front of Pomerania. On January 14, 1920, the headman of Grudziadz appointed him the Emergency Voit of the Dusochin Region, and a day later he was also appointed Extraordinary Civil Registry Office official in the Byalokhovo region. In the same year he moved from Byalokhovo to Shembruchek, where he was the head of the school. On August 14, 1920, the district commandant of the National Guard in Grudziadze appointed him the regional commandant of the 18th detachment of the National Guard. At that time, this position gave the right to carry out actions specific to the police. September 20, 1921 the tax service of Pomerania appointed him deputy member of the quantitative commission for the rural area of ​​Grudziadz. He was also a member of the Association of Veterans of the Union of Insurgents and Military.

In 1929, Juliusz Zieliński was released from work in Poland and sent to work in the system of Polish education abroad. On July 1, he was hired by a new school in Zlotow ^[1] , which had the status of a private school of a national minority and included 2 classes. At the beginning of the school year 1929/1930 Zelinsky took over the leadership of the school.

Juliusz Zielinsky participated in the public life of the Polish national minority in Pomerania. He was acquainted with the priest Boleslav Domansky, who was the informal leader of the Poles in the Third Reich . Together with the priest Boleslav Domansky and a teacher by the name of Kanya, Juliusz Zielinsky led the work of the youth organization in Zakšev ^[2] .

Juliusz Zielinsky was the chairman of the Zlotowy conference region, organized there lectures and discussions, intended not only for teachers, but also for wide circles of the Polish national minority of Zlotowy land, the Fifth Region of the Union of Poles in Germany. One of the characteristics of the school authorities described his activities as follows:

The beginning of World War II caught Juliusz Zelinsky with his family in Grudziadze. In July 1939, he finished his work in Zlotow and since August was on vacation in Grudziadz. In the new academic year 1939/40, he was supposed to start work in the same city in elementary school No. 13. Juliusz Zelinsky and his family were evacuated to the east. This saved him from reprisal with teachers in the framework of the "Intelligenzaktion" . After the surrender of Warsaw, he returned with his family to Grudziadz and was arrested there in early October 1939 by the German Nazi organization Selbstschutz, together with a large group of local intelligentsia. Julišš Zielinski was detained in the building of the boarding school for the Society for Helping Children and Polish Youth of Borderlands, which became a distribution prison. After a while it was released.

He was again arrested in March 1940. For several days he was in prison in Grudziadze, after which he was taken to an unknown destination as part of a large group of prisoners. A few weeks later, information appeared that he was in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In September 1940 he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp, where he was assigned prisoner number 17519.

He died in a concentration camp in January 1944 according to an official report due to ascites ( Bauchwassersucht )

Juliusz Zieliński had four children:

• Edmund (1916-1918) died in infancy;
• Irena (1914-1994, married - Shostek) was the mother of the priest Andrzej Shostek and the curator of the university library in Wroclaw . Died in 1991;
• Edward (1918-1963) was captured during the war. After the war, he remained to live abroad. He died in 1963;
• Henry (1920-1981) was also captured, after the war he was a professor at the University of Wroclaw and the father of professor Krzysztof Zelinsky . Died in 1981.

• Leon Kowalski, Czas próby. Wspomnienia nauczyciela z ziemi złotowskiej (1930-1939) , Poznan Publishing House, 1965.
• Ziemia Złotowska , edited by Ed. Wojciech Wrzeszyński, Gdansk 1969, p. 123.
• Maria Zientara-Malewska , Złotowszczyzna , Lodz Publishing House, 1971 (p. 64-70)
• Maria Zientara-Malewska, Wspomnienia nauczycielki spod znaku rodła , Pedagogical and School Publishing House, Warsaw 1985 (p. 114-115).
• Janusz Justyna, Pamiętajcie o dyrektorze (article from the series “History of the Zlotow Earth”), “Local News”, No. 17/658, April 27, 2011, p. 16.
• Zofia Jelonkowa, Po wizycie prof. Teresy Szostek (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) w Złotowie ], website of the Zlotowski Museum, 2011
• Juliusz Zieliński bohater nieco zapomniany , zlotow.naszemiasto.pl, 08/04/2011
• Złotów nasz i wasz , part 2, publishing house of the Library of the Museum of the Zlotow Earth, ed. Sofia Elonkova, Zlotow 2012, ISBN 978-83-935282-0-2

• Juliusz Zieliński bohater nieco zapomniany (Polish)
• Po wizycie prof. Teresy Szostek (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) w Złotowie (Polish)