Leon Jan Hoszowski
Engineer, designer, Polish community leader
Born Aug. 4, 1916, Drohobycz, Poland; came to U.S., 1951; son of Albert and Julia (Michalkow); married Antonina (Zebrowska); children: Andrzej, Elzbieta.
Education: Academy of Physical Education, Warsaw (Poland), 1937; engineer, Chrysler Institute of Engineering, Detroit (MI), 1957.
Career: official, District of Drohobycz, 1938-39; worker, London (U.K.), 1949-51; employee, student, Lawrence Institute of Technology, 1951-55, body design checker, Engineering Division, Chrysler Corporation, 1955-83, Detroit.
Author: articles for Polish - American press; broadcasts for Polish radio program; editor, brochure on 50 anniversary of massacre in Katyn forest, 1990.
Member of: physical instructor, Polish Falcons of America, Detroit district, 1952-56; Polish Home Army Veterans Association (president, 1956-74, vice president 1962-64, Michigan division); Precinct delegate, Oakland County Republican Party, 1980-84; founder, president, Polish Home Army Room Committee, Orchard Lake Museum (MI), 1989; president, Senior Citizens Club, Polish American Congress (P.A.C.) Michigan Division; national director, Polish Army Veterans Association - Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej (S.W.A.P.).
Honors, i.a.: Cross of Gallantry, 1944; Gold Cross of Merit, 1965; Polish Home Army Cross, 1968; Warsaw Uprsing 1944 Cross, 1990; Partisans Cross, 1993; Polish Army Medal; British War Medal; Chivalry Cross - Polonia Restituta, L. Walesa, President of Poland, 1993.
Served with: Polish Home Army - S.Z.P., Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej (Z.W.Z.), Armia Krajowa (A.K.), Armed Sabotage Command, 1939-44, Warsaw Uprising, 1944; arrested by N.K.V.D., sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, forcibly enlisted to Polish People's Army, escaped from Polish People's Army, joined Polish Armed Forces in the West, 2nd Corps, 1st lieutenant, 1945-47; promoted to captain, 1990.
Languages: Polish, English, Ukrainian, Russian.
Hobbies: sports, philately.
Home: 28086 Palmer Ave., Madison Heights, MI 48071
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996