It's been 80 years since Henry Rossmann died.

This year It's the 80th anniversary of Henry Rossman's death. but a few In mention to this, this circular anniversary passed without echo. Henry Rossmann was 1 of the main ideologists of the national camp, personal secretary Roman Dmowski and creator ONR, and later ONR-ABC. He was a actual youth leader and educator Polish. In 1934 he was a prisoner of the concentration camp in Bereza Kartuska. His kidneys were damaged there, resulting in 2 years Then he died.

For 80. The anniversary of Henry Rossman's death reminds of an article by Stanisław Piasecki, which appeared in the national paper "Easy from the Bridge" in February 1937.

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He died. Henry Rossmann. fewer names mean so much in history. a breakthrough made by the young national generation in Polish life, Like that. And in this is the tragedy of the destiny of modern Poland, That who Henry Rossmann was and what worked for the Nation knew better prison walls and barbed wires of Kartuska Bereza than wide Country opinion. But those who worked with Him, those who worked with Him They fought, His memory will pass on to the future.

He died full male, 40 years old, heavy. kidney illness that he developed in Bereza Kartuska before two years after the dissolution of the National extremist Camp. He died soldierish. In the fight for large Poland.

The political situation in Poland must be made clear years ago twenty to realize the large work of the generation, of whom Henry Rossmann was 1 of the most prominent leaders And the most valuable activists.

German business in Warsaw. Society broken and divided. Youth in higher education institutions open by occupiers confused. Activists want to lead her to Beseler. One of those who broke out of the delegation is Henry Rossmann, already then working in secret circles from which he developed Then the full national movement of the young generation.

In 1920, artilleryman Henry Rossmann fights at the front. And when The winning war against the Bolsheviks ends the truce, returns to discontinued university studies and political activities.

There were fewer who understood in those years young people, that the resurrected Poland does not request to swallow regained independence, but interior reconstruction program Nation. In this thin group, beside Jodzevich, Rembielinski, Jakubowski - was Henryk Rossmann.

We met in 1921 in Poznań, where Rossmann and Jakubowski They came to finish law. With their arrival academic life It took a different pace. The conflict for triumph has begun a nationalist thought among young people. National Unification of Academic Youth, transformed after respective years In the Youth of All Poland. Rossmann is 1 of the most efficient activists of this movement that embraces all environments University in Poland and in respective years it is decisive victory. erstwhile in 1920 at the first general convention - academic ombudsmen are a group of respective people, in the year. 1924 already become the decisive factor, they have behind them Most youths, elect the ultimate Academic Committee, go broad work for the national jury.

No. No. I even effort to sketch the stories of these times; but erstwhile she erstwhile did Someone will write, in each chapter will be Rossmann's name, Even though he never went to his head, he did not include CEOs, He wasn't looking for publicity.

After After finishing law studies in Poznań Rossmann moves to Warsaw. It is already developing political activity to a wider extent scale. Thus, erstwhile the Camp of large Poland was created in 1926, Rossmann becomes his godfather for the Warsaw district.

So does he. He was the soul of the national - extremist movement, which respective years ago It exploded.
in Warsaw with a flame as an expression of the youth's rebellion generations against the present Polish reality. And he stood on leading this movement to the last moments of his life.

Some of those who present preach ideas - national radicals or knows how much he has to owe in his own thinking Rossmann. And nationalism and social radicalism are today confession of the religion of the full young Polish generation, regardless of group divisions from Doboszyński to Wasiutyński in political and from Dobrzyński to

Pietrkiewicz in young national poetry.

Tough, hard, self-sacrifice life. He could have arranged it for himself. otherwise, more comfortable, easier, like so many of his His peers. immense organizational capacity, deep Intelligence, brilliance of mind, the gift of guidance and leadership, allowed him to make a "fearful career" in many areas allowed him to "be known", widely recognized. He didn't go on that hot road. From He was a man of struggle. He died erstwhile that fight Still going on. But he had to die knowing he wasn't. He survived life for nothing, that a fresh generation would emergence from the fight Poland, although present Poland sent it to Bereza.

He died on a grey February day. Before spring.

I compose under the first shocking impression of death. Yet I've got this face in my eyes that's poor, thin, gone. Immobility on the pillows, stone still. The face of man, who was the personification of life, energy, faith. Never again His eyes will shine. And no word shall come out of his mouth.

A I mean... There's more to him than the best. a memory of a uncommon integrity man, more than The most heartfelt memory of friends and coworkers, something more than a card in the past of the Polish national movement. He'll stay. After him, what he did through his short life.

He was a creator. He didn't build the edifice, he didn't preserve it. His name in the art galleries, he left no behind The book, did not compose its name in authoritative documents post-war past of the Polish state. He left himself in his soul. The young Polish generation, was 1 of those who made a large breakthrough in Poland.

Among those who will read these words, may be Those who first encounter the name and surname: Henry Rossmann.

Let them think profoundly about the situation of modern Poland, in whose best sons of the Nation must work beyond the margin The authoritative life of the state, unknown and only after death shown society in the memories of the dead.

To The soul of St. Henry Rossmann say Our Father and Health Maria. Eternal rest, Lord.

Stanislaw Sandman.

Reprint : Ostrołek National Association. 2017 .