Janusz Krupski
Janusz Krupski | |
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Minister of Combatants and Victims of Repression | |
In office 19 May 2006 – 10 April 2010 | |
Succeeded by | Jan Ciechanowski |
Personal details | |
Born | 9 May 1951 Lublin, Poland |
Died | 10 April 2010 Smolensk, Russia | (aged 58)
Awards | Order of Polonia Restituta |
Janusz Krupski (9 May 1951 in
Studies and democratic opposition
Krupski acquired his degree in history at the
While still a student, Janusz met his future wife, Joanna.[1]
Martial law and afterwards
In 1980 he joined the Solidarity movement, and served on the coordinating committee of its Gdańsk branch. During the state of martial law in Poland he was persecuted by the communist authorities. After ten months in hiding he was arrested and interned by the authorities in a special Internment Camp. His mother made numerous appeals for his release on his behalf (Janusz himself refused to make them) but they were turned down.[1]
In 1983, with the end of martial law he was released. However, soon after he was seized by the communist secret police, the
In post communist Poland
After the fall of communism he was a member of a Sejm extraordinary committee charged with examining the effects and consequences of the martial law in Poland of the early 1980s. He was also the executive director of the publishing house "Krupski i S-ka" between 1993 and 2000.[4] From 2000 until 2006 he was the vice-president of the Institute of National Remembrance (Polish: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej).[2]
Krupski resumed editing the journal in post Communist Poland under a new title Editions: Spotkania in 1990 and continued to do so until 1992.[2]
He died on 10 April 2010 in the
At the time of his death, Krupski was the director of the Department of Combatants and Victims of Repression (Polish:Urzad do Spraw Kombatantów i Osób Represjonowanych).[4] He resided with his wife and seven children in Grodzisk Mazowiecki.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Jacek Kowalsk, "Janusz Krupski - pasażer lotu 101" (Janusz Krupski - passenger on flight 101), Gazeta Wyborcza, 4/10/2010, [1]
- ^ a b c d "Janusz Krupski", Rzeczpospolita, 4/10/2010, [2] Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Internowani, 1981-1982 (Interned 1981-1982), "Janusz KrupskiL: Żrący płyn kapitana Piotrowskiego", (Burning liquid of Cpt. Piotrowski), "Janusz Krupski". Archived from the original on 2011-07-04. Retrieved 2010-07-10., last accessed 7/10/2010
- ^ a b Website of Urzad do Spraw Kombatantów i Osób Represjonowanych [3], last accessed 07/08/2010