Famous People with Name Waclaw

Waclaw Krzeptowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Waclaw Krzeptowski: was one of the leaders of the Goralenvolk during World War II. Before the German occupation he had been chairman of the Peasant Party in Nowy Targ. In the early years of the war, he lobbied Hans Frank in favor of his plan to establish an independent state for his ethnic group in southern Poland. This project proved to be a failure due to lack of support among the local population.During the German-Soviet war, Krzeptowski tried to recruit soldiers for his "Goralen legion" (also referred to as Goralische Division SS) to fight alongside the Axis Powers. The attempt ended in a complete fiasco as out of the initial 300 able bodied recruits (from the entire Podhale region) all but twelve deserted within a short time or were sent to concentration camps by the Germans for insubordination. At the end of the war, he refused to flee to Germany and instead hid out in the Tatry mountains of his native region. In December 1944 he was tracked down and captured by the Home Army. He was tried for high treason, sentenced to death by hanging by his own brother, Julian Krzeptowski, a Home Army member, and executed.

Waclaw Michal Zaleski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Waclaw Michal Zaleski: was a Polish poet, writer, researcher of folklore (folklorist), theatre critic, political activist, governor of Galicia (1848).Zaleski collected and published in Lviv Piesni polskie i ruskie ludu galicyjskiego (Polish and Russian songs of Galician nation; 1833), which contained about 1500 works, including 160 with piano accompaniment composed by Karol Lipinski. It was the largest collection of folk-songs published in Poland before Oskar Kolberg.Zaleski was an author of patriotic songs, paraphrases, translations of Ukrainian dumas and never published stage works.

Waclaw Zagórski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Waclaw Zagórski: was a Polish lawyer, soldier, a participant in the Warsaw Uprising with the rank of captain and a commander in the famous Chrobry II Battalion. He was decorated with the Order of Virtuti Militari 5th Class in 1944.

Waclaw "Vogg" Kieltyka            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Waclaw "Vogg" Kieltyka: is a Polish musician and composer. He is a graduate of musical school in the first and second degree, alongside having attended the Academy of Music in Krakow as an accordionist. Professionally, Waclaw is the guitarist in death metal group Decapitated and has been a member of Lux Occulta since 1998, as well as the Krakow group Sceptic and the Polish singer-songwriter Renata Przemyk. Recently he has joined death metal band Vader.

Waclaw Borowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Waclaw Borowski: was a Polish painter and decorative artist.He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Józef Mehoffer who was one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time. He spent the years of 1909-1913 in Paris copying works of the old masters at the Louvre. He later traveled to Italy to study the Renaissance masters in the place of its origin. In 1920 Borowski was a volunteer fighter for the Polish forces in the Polish-Bolshevik War. In 1926 he cofounded and was a vital part of Warsaw's artistic groups RYTM.