Polish Uruguayan
A Polish Uruguayan is a Uruguayan citizen of full or partial Polish ancestry.
The Polish arrived in Uruguay at the end of the 19th century.[1] The most recent figure is from the 2011 Uruguayan census, which revealed 497 people who declared Poland as their country of birth.[2] Other sources claim around 5,000 Poles in Uruguay.[1]
Most Polish Uruguayans belong to the Roman Catholic Church. There is also a significant Polish Jewish minority.
Polish Uruguayans have two important institutions: the Polish Society Marshal Joseph Pilsudsky (Spanish: Sociedad Polonesa Mariscal José Pilsudski), established in 1915, and the Uruguayan Polish Union (Spanish: Unión Polono Uruguaya), established in 1935,[1] both associated with USOPAL.[3]
Notable Polish Uruguayans
- past
- the sisters Paulina, Luisa and Clotilde Luisi, prominent feminists
- Chil Rajchman (1914-2004), Holocaust survivor and entrepreneur
- Francisco Majewski (1939–2012), footballer
- Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945–2013), footballer
- present
- Jan Kobylański (born 1923 in Rowne), businessman
- José Serebrier (born 1938), conductor and composer
- Juan Carlos Masnik (born 1943), footballer
- Lucía Topolansky (born 1944), politician and First Lady (2010-2015)
- Eduardo Dluzniewski (born 1952), football referee
- Marcelo Tulbovitz (born 1961), football trainer
- Daniel Hendler (born 1976), film, television, and theatre actor
- Matías Vitkieviez (born 1985), footballer
See also
References
- 1 2 3 "Centennial of the arrival of Poles to Uruguay". Correo Uruguayo. Retrieved 14 December 2014. (Spanish)
- ↑ "Immigration to Uruguay" (PDF). INE. Retrieved 6 March 2013. (Spanish)
- ↑ USOPAL (Spanish)
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