Julia Brystiger
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Julia Brystiger[
Life
Brystiger was the daughter of a
After graduating from University, Brystiger went to Paris where she continued her education, receiving a PhD in philosophy. Upon their return, in 1928–1929, she got a job at a high school in Vilnius and in a Jewish Teacher's College Tarbuch. Since 1927, she was an active participant in the communist movement, and in 1929 was fired because of her communist agitation. Working for the Communist Party of Poland, she was arrested several times, and in 1937 was sentenced to 2 years in prison.[2]
Stalinist agent
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After
Following German
In fact, the Polish intelligentsia as such is against the Communist system and basically, it is impossible to re-educate it. All that remains is to liquidate it. However, since we must not repeat the mistake of the Russians after the 1917 revolution, when all intelligentsia members were exterminated, and the country did not develop correctly afterwards, we have to create such a system of terror and pressure that the members of the intelligentsia would not dare to be politically active.[7]
Brystiger personally oversaw the first stages of each UB investigation at her place of employment. She would torture the captured persons using her own methods such as whipping male victims' genitals. One of her victims was a man named Szafarzyński – from the Olsztyn office of the Polish People's Party – who died as a result of interrogation carried out by Brystygier. One of the victims of her interrogation methods testified later: "She is a murderous monster, worse than German female guards of the concentration camps". Anna Roszkiewicz–Litwiniwiczowa, a former soldier of the Home Army, said about Brystygier: "She was famous for her sadistic tortures; she seemed to have been obsessed with sadistic treatment of genitalia and was fulfilling her libido in that way.".[8]
Brystiger became the head of the 5th Department of UB sometime in the late 1940s. It specialized in the persecution of Polish religious leaders. Brystygier – a dogmatic Marxist – yearned to destroy all religion as an "
She also persecuted other congregations, such as the 2,000 jailed Jehovah's Witnesses.[1] Julia Brystygier left the Ministry of Public Security (UB) in 1956 and tried to become a writer, authoring a novel "Crooked Letters". She worked in a publishing house under Jewish communist Jerzy Borejsza
Works
- Krzywe litery (1960)
- Znak "H" : opowiadania (1962)
- Przez ucho igielne (1965)
See also
- History of Poland: Stalinist era (1948–1956)
- Michał Bristiger, Julia Brystygier's son (in Polish Wikipedia)
- film Zaćma, inspired by the life of Julia Bristigierowa.[9]
References
- ^ a b David Dastych, "Devil's Choice. High-ranking Communist Agents in the Polish Catholic Church". Archived from the original on April 25, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-01. Canada Free Press CFP, January 10, 2007. Retrieved from the Internet Archive, January 14, 2013.
- ^ a b c CFP, "Devil's Choice. High-ranking Communist Agents in the Polish Catholic Church" Archived 2007-03-01 at the Wayback Machine By David Dastych, Canada Free Press, January 10, 2007
- ^ ISBN 0-7864-0371-3. 437 pages.
- ^ a b Z. Blazynski, Mowi Jozef Swiatlo. Za kulisami bezpieki i partii 1950-1955, London, 1986.
- ^ Ryszard Terlecki, "Miecz i Tarcza Komunizmu. Historia aparatu bezpieczenstwa w Polse, 1944-1990" (Sword and Shield of Communism. A history of the Polish security services, 1944-1990), Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 2007, pg. 72
- ISBN 83-85513-49-3. (in Polish)
- ^ Czeslaw Leopold and Krzysztof Lechicki, "Political Prisoners in Poland 1945-1956", Mloda Polska, Gdańsk, page 20.
- Warszawa, 1991. Page 106.
- ^ Ryszard Bugajski Shooting Stalinist Drama in Warsaw, Film New Europe, http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/poland-news/item/110425-production-ryszard-bugajski-shooting-stalinist-drama-in-warsaw