The funeral Wladyslaw Bartoszewski – Life in Warsaw

04-05-2015, last updated 04-05-2015 6:31

On Monday in Warsaw funeral will be held prof. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski. Powazki Military rests on.

Source: Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski passes memorabilia to the museum

will be attended by President Bronislaw Komorowski, Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, the head of the European Council, Donald Tusk, President of Germany Joachim Gauck, as well as representatives of other countries.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Agent premiere for. International Dialogue, an Auschwitz survivor Army soldier, historian died on 24 April at the age of 93 years. The position of representative of the President of the Council of Ministers. International Dialogue took over in 2007. In this role, he dealt with the development of Polish-German cooperation and contacts with the Jewish Diaspora and Israel.

On Monday, in the chair. 12.00 in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Mass will be celebrated. Funeral, after which the Funeral Home on the Powazki Military Cemetery will be a short farewell ceremony for family and loved ones, without the involvement of the media. After hours. 14. at the Powazki Military Cemetery funeral ceremony will take place.

A spokeswoman for the government of Civic Platform deputy told PAP that the ceremony will be attended by representatives of many countries, including German President Joachim Gauck.

According to the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw at the funeral of Professor Bartoszewski official representative of the State of Israel will b. Foreign Minister Moshe Arens.

A week ago, the Chancellor of Germany, being held in Warsaw in connection with the Polish-German intergovernmental consultations, inscribed a book of condolence issued in the Prime Minister’s office Wladyslaw Bartoszewski.

“I lean over life’s work Wladyslaw Bartoszewski. He was a man of courage and far-sighted, fighter for freedom and reconciliation. He played a decisive role in shaping the German-Polish friendship. His accomplishments in life are for us a stimulus for the development of this friendship, “- wrote the German Chancellor.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski was born in 1922. in Warsaw. In September of 1940. He was arrested by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz, where he was imprisoned until April 1941. In 1942. He joined the conspiracy; he joined the Army and began working with the Council for Aid to Jews “Zegota”. He participated in the Warsaw Uprising.

In 1946. Was employed in associated with the Polish Peasants’ Party Stanislaw Mikolajczyk “People’s Newspaper”. In 1946. Was arrested on charges of espionage and sentenced to prison, which held until 1948. Once again arrested in December 1949. In May of 1952. Sentenced to 8 years in prison for espionage. In August of 1954. He got the year off in punishment.

After his release Bartoszewski took up journalism, collaborated with the weekly “Capital” and “Tygodnik Powszechny”. In the years 1973-1982 and 1984-1985 he taught modern history at the Catholic University of Lublin, he also lectures at German universities. He was under surveillance by the Secret Police, among others, as “a political exile contact reaction.”

In 1965. he was honored by the Yad Vashem title of the Righteous Among the Nations. He was an honorary citizen of the state of Israel.

In 1976. Supported the letter intellectuals against changes in the constitution of the communist regime, the so-called. Letter 64. Since 1978. He co-founded the Society of Academic Courses and taught at a secret Flying University. In 1980. He became a member of the “Solidarity”. After martial law was interned; released in April 1982.

In 1990-95 he was the Polish ambassador in Austria, a few months later Foreign Minister in the government of Józef Oleksy. In 1997-2001 he was a senator fourth term on behalf of the Freedom Union. Foreign Minister again was in the government of Jerzy Buzek in 2000-2001. Since 2001. Presided Council for the Protection of Memory of Combat and Martyrdom and the International Auschwitz Council.

In 2007. Bartoszewski stood at the head of the honorary committee AFTER before pre-term parliamentary elections. During the presidential election in 2010. He became a member of the honorary committee of support for the candidacy of Bronislaw Komorowski for president. In November of 2007. He was appointed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk attorney Prime Ministers. International dialogue. In this role, he dealt with the development of Polish-German cooperation and contacts with the Jewish Diaspora and Israel.

Bartoszewski received numerous awards, honors and awards, including Order of the White Eagle, Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Papal Order of St.. Gregory the Great, Grand Cross of the Order of the Knights and the Hospital of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem. Doctor honoris causa, among others, University of Warsaw, Haifa and Hebrew College in Baltimore, including honorary citizen Warsaw, Wroclaw and Gdansk. 25 February 2011 was appointed by President Bronislaw Komorowski in the Chapter of the Order of the White Eagle, who chose him for the position of Chancellor.

He was the author approx. 1.5 thousand. articles and approx. 40 books, including “This is my homeland. Poles with the help of the Jews 1939-1945″ (together with Zofia Lewinówną) “1859 days of Warsaw”, “fate of the Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943. In the fortieth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” “Days of fighting capital. Chronicle of the Warsaw Uprising, “” Autumn of hope: it is worth being respectable “; In later years the book was resumed Fri. “It should be decent. Texts personal and non-personal” record conversations with Michał Komar “Wladyslaw Bartoszewski: interview-river”.

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