SDP Warsaw: November gathering of the Cultural Publications Club
date:28 October 2023 Editor: Anna
The gathering of the SDP Cultural Publications Club will be held this time, due to All Saints Day on Thursday, 9 November 2023, at 5 p.m. at the Journalist's House, 3/5 Foksal Street in Warsaw. The guest will be Małgorzata Basaj from the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek, which will bring the figure of Aleksandra Piłsudski from Szczerbiński, an independent and social activist, the second wife of Józef Piłsudski, Patron of the Year 2023.
You're welcome!
Dr Teresa Kaczorowska, president of the Cultural Publications Club of SDP

** Aleksandra Piłsudska of Szczerbiński was born on 12 December 1882 in Suwałki and died on 31 March 1963 in London. independency activist – after the outbreak of planet War I she served in the Polish Legions, she was commandant of legion couriers. After the division was disbanded, she acted in a conspiracy in the Prussian occupation, storing weapons and carrying literature, PPS activist (part of many combat actions, including action under the Bezdans, attack on the State Bank in Kiev, arrested her for being arrested by Russians) and POW (for which she was arrested by the Germans in November 1915, interned in a camp in Szczypiorno). Honored by the Order of Virtuti Militari.
She was the second wife of Joseph Piłsudski, the parent of their 2 daughters, Wanda (born February 7, 1918) and Jadwiga (born February 28, 1920). However, the wedding with Józef Piłsudski took place only after 15 years of close acquaintance, on 25 October 1921, after the death of Maria Piłsudski, who had previously refused to divorce. Józef and Aleksandra Piłsudski lived with their daughters in the Milusin villa in the Podwarszawski Sulejówku (now the Józef Piłsudski Museum). Aleksandra Piłsudska conducted a broad honorary and social activity.
*** Margaret Basaj – historian and museumist, head of the Department of Exhibitions and Popularization of discipline at the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek. Co-author and curator of the permanent exhibition “For the Republic of Poland. Józef Piłsudski 1867-1935”. His technological interests focus on the past of the struggles for Poland's independency in the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, social history, as well as the past of Sulejówka and its inhabitants, in peculiar 2 women: Aleksandra Piłsudska and Zofia Moraczewska.
She was the second wife of Joseph Piłsudski, the parent of their 2 daughters, Wanda (born February 7, 1918) and Jadwiga (born February 28, 1920). However, the wedding with Józef Piłsudski took place only after 15 years of close acquaintance, on 25 October 1921, after the death of Maria Piłsudski, who had previously refused to divorce. Józef and Aleksandra Piłsudski lived with their daughters in the Milusin villa in the Podwarszawski Sulejówku (now the Józef Piłsudski Museum). Aleksandra Piłsudska conducted a broad honorary and social activity.
*** Margaret Basaj – historian and museumist, head of the Department of Exhibitions and Popularization of discipline at the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek. Co-author and curator of the permanent exhibition “For the Republic of Poland. Józef Piłsudski 1867-1935”. His technological interests focus on the past of the struggles for Poland's independency in the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, social history, as well as the past of Sulejówka and its inhabitants, in peculiar 2 women: Aleksandra Piłsudska and Zofia Moraczewska.