Juskowski
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The social and legal foundations that sustained this noble lineage came to an abrupt end in the Second Polish Republic, when the March Constitution of 1921 abolished all noble legal privileges, effectively eliminating the szlachta as a recognized estate and terminating the juridical standing on which families such as the Juśkowski lineage had historically depended.[2] |
The social and legal foundations that sustained this noble lineage came to an abrupt end in the Second Polish Republic, when the March Constitution of 1921 abolished all noble legal privileges, effectively eliminating the szlachta as a recognized estate and terminating the juridical standing on which families such as the Juśkowski lineage had historically depended.[2] |
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Many members of the Juśkowski family living in the Vitebsk regionand other areas heavily affected by Stalin’s ethnic repression were among the Poles targeted during the Polish Operation of the NKVD (1937–1938), when Soviet authorities executed approximately 111,000 people under Order No. 00485, often solely for their Polish identity; this is consistent with data documented by the Memorial‑associated research project and its victim database, which records tens of thousands of Poles from Belarus and the wider Kresy region arrested and killed in the purge.[1] |
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