Wladyslaw BARTOSZEWSKI Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
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1941-1944 | and 1948-1949 studies at Warsaw University's Faculty of Humanities |
1940-1941 | he was imprisoned at the Auschwitz death camp |
1942 | co-founder of the "Zegota" Council for Aid to Jews |
1942-1944 | Front for the Rebirth of Poland (FOP) |
1942-1945 | Information Department of the Information and Propaganda Bureau of the Main Headquarters of the Polish Home Army (AK) |
1943-1944 | Republic of Poland's Government-in-exile Home Office Department of Internal Affairs (Prison Unit and Jewish Section) |
After that Bartoszewski was a member of the Polish Peasants' Party (PSL), then led by Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, and he worked as co-editor of "Gazeta Ludowa." He was imprisoned by the communists twice, in 1946-1948 and 1949-1954, and in 1955 he was recognised as unfairly victimised. | |
1963-1981 | Secret Polish-based worker of Radio Free Europe |
1973-1985 | History lecturer at the Lublin Catholic University |
1972-1983 | Secretary-General of the Polish PEN |
1978 | Bartoszewski co-founder and lecturer of the Scientific Courses Association (TKN) |
1978-1981 | Member of the clandestine Polish Alliance for Independence |
1980 | Co-founder of the Committee for the Defence of Those Harassed for Their Beliefs, attached to the NSZZ Solidarity National Commission |
1981-1982 | He was interned at the Jaworze Internment Camp |
1983-1990 | Professor of Political Sciences, in Munich, Eichstaett and Augsburg |
1990 | -1995 Polish Ambassador to Austria |
1995 | and again since 2000 Minister for Foreign Affairs |
Professor-conferred on him by the government of Bavaria; | |
In 1995 he was decorated with the Order of the White Eagle. He was one of the first Poles to receive the "Righteous Among the Nations of the World" title, in Jerusalem. |
Publikationen
author of some 40 books and over 1,000 articles, mainly concerning the history of World War II, Poland's struggle for independence, Polish-German and Polish-Jewish relation |
Auszeichnungen
Doctor Honoris Causa in Philosophy-conferred in 1981 by the Polish University In Exile; | |
Doctor Honoris Causa in Humanities-1984, the Baltimore Hebrew College in USA; | |
Doctor Honoris Causa in Humanities -1996, Wroclaw University. |