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Zdzisław Jeziorański

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (Polish pronunciation:

Radio Free Europe, and later as a security advisor to the US presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. In 1996, President Bill Clinton awarded him with America's highest civilian award the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[2]

He was born Zdzisław Antoni Jeziorański, (Jeziora Coat of Arms) in

noms de guerre during the war, the best known of which was Jan Nowak which he later added to his original surname.[3]

Biography

Zdzisław Jeziorański was born on 2 October 1914 in Berlin. He attended

Polish Army as an artillery non-commissioned officer. He was taken prisoner of war by the Germans in Volhynia, but managed to escape and returned to Warsaw.[4] Most of his colleagues were taken prisoners of war by the Soviets and later killed in the Katyn massacre
.

He quickly joined the

Akcja N
, a secret organisation preparing German-language newspapers and other propaganda material pretending to be official German publications, to wage psychological warfare against German troops.

He also served as an envoy between the commanders of the

Warsaw uprising broke out.[5]

During the Uprising Nowak-Jeziorański took an active part in the fight against the Germans and also organised the Polish radio that maintained contact with Allied countries through daily broadcasts in Polish and English. Shortly before the capitulation of the Polish capital, he was ordered by Home Army's commander-in-chief Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski to leave the city and find his way to London. He managed to evade being captured and reached Great Britain, bringing with him large quantities of documents and photos. For his bravery and his travels through the German-occupied Europe he was awarded with the Virtuti Militari, the highest Polish military medal.[6]

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański on Radio Free Europe, 3 May 1952
Monument to Jan Nowak-Jeziorański in Warsaw (bronze), sculptor: Wojciech Gryniewicz

After the war Nowak-Jeziorański stayed in the West, initially in London and then in

Radio Free Europe. Through his daily radio broadcasts he remained one of the most popular radio personalities, both in communist-held Poland and among the Polish diaspora in the West. After giving up his posts in 1976 he became one of the most prominent members of the Polish American Congress. He was also working as an advisor to the American National Security Agency and the presidents of the USA Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Through his contacts with many notable politicians in the USA, he was one of the proponents of Poland's membership in NATO (achieved in 1999).[7]

In the 1990s he started his cooperation with the

Polish Radio and wrote a series of broadcasts titled Polska z oddali (Poland from a Distance). Since 1990 he was on Polish television as writer/presenter of monthly programs. In July 2002 he returned to Warsaw for the final time. He was an active supporter of Poland's entry into the European Union
. Most of his books, published abroad as well as those published in Poland after 1989, were best-sellers and gained him even more popularity.

For his writings he was awarded some of the most prestigious Polish literary awards, including the

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.[8]

He died in Warsaw on 20 January 2005.[9] He donated all his archives to the Ossolineum Institute.[10]

Censorship in Russia

A selection of Nowak's texts has been confiscated in Saint Petersburg, Russia by the FSB.[11]

Awards

Bibliography

Among other books, he wrote:

In popular culture

A dramatic feature film about the wartime experiences of Nowak-Jeziorański and the

Wladyslaw Pasikowski, it stars Philippe Tłokiński [pl
] as Nowak-Jeziorański.

See also

  • Polish Secret State

References

  1. ^ "'Courier from Warsaw' commemorated in a movie". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  2. ^ "THE COURIER FROM WARSAW: JAN JEZIORAŃSKI-NOWAK'S FIGHT FOR POLISH INDEPENDENCE". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Zdzisław Antoni Jeziorański". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1914–2005)". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Jan Nowak-Jeziorański – symbol walki z komunizmem". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1914–2005)". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1914–2005)". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Jan-Nowak Jeziorański. Biogram". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Jan Nowak-Jeziorański". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  10. ^ "Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1914–2005) – sylwetka". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  11. ^ Maciejewska, Beata (18 February 2016). "Książki wrocławskiego wydawnictwa zakazane w Rosji. FSB w drukarni, zarekwirowali cały nakład". wroclaw.wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  12. ^ "75 lat temu przerzucono do Polski m.in. Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  13. ^ "THE COURIER FROM WARSAW: JAN JEZIORAŃSKI-NOWAK'S FIGHT FOR POLISH INDEPENDENCE". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  14. ^ "Valstybės apdovanojimai". Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  15. ISBN 9781317475941
    . Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  16. ^ "Rok Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego. "Był sternikiem, ambasadorem, doradcą"" [The year of Nowak-Jeziorański. "He was a helmsman, ambassador, advisor."] (in Polish). Retrieved 16 April 2020.

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