Karol Śliwka

[2] Śliwka was the foremost leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia within the Polish minority.

[2] As a parliamentarian, Śliwka fought for the rights of the Polish minority in the Czechoslovak Republic.

[4] Following the cession of Trans-Olza territory to Poland, Śliwka and another Polish parliamentarian Leon Wolf, leader of the League of Silesian Catholics, lost their parliamentary seats on 30 October 1938.

Śliwka was eventually transferred to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, where he officially died in March 1943.

[1][2] After World War II he was dishonoured in Czechoslovakia for alleged betrayal of communist ideals in 1938.

Plaque in Doubrava , commemorating local victims of World War II . Śliwka is one of eleven persons listed.
Plaque of street in Karviná - Fryštát bearing Śliwka's name