Witold Kieżun, the Glossary
Witold Jerzy Kieżun (6 February 1922 – 12 June 2021) was a Polish economist, soldier of the Home Army (the Polish resistance movement against German occupation during World War II), participant of the Warsaw uprising and prisoner in the Soviet Gulags.[1]
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108 relations: Anti-Polish sentiment, Auschwitz concentration camp, Żoliborz, Bokun, Brest, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Business valuation, Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Cross of Merit (Poland), Cross of Valour (Poland), Department for International Development, Destruction of Warsaw, Duquesne University, Economy of Poland, Education in Poland during World War II, Festung Warschau, Fox School of Business and Management, George Soros, Grey Ranks, Gulag, Hanna Suchocka, HEC Montréal, Home Army, Honorary degree, Hyperinflation, Invasion of Poland, Jagiellonian University, Jan Bytnar, Jarosław Kaczyński, Jeffrey Sachs, Jerzy Buzek, Joseph Stalin, Karakum Desert, Kogon, Uzbekistan, Kozminski University, Kraków, Lech Kaczyński, Lend-Lease, Leszek Balcerowicz, Lithuania, Marek Belka, McGill University, Medal of Merit for National Defence, Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland, Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945, Ministry of Public Security (Poland), Mock execution, Montelupich Prison, Mumps, Muscular dystrophy, ... Expand index (58 more) »
- Academic staff of Kozminski University
- Home Army officers
- Polish expatriates in Canada
- Polish expatriates in the United States
- Polish torture victims
- Recipients of the Pro Patria Medal
Anti-Polish sentiment
Polonophobia, also referred to as anti-Polonism (Antypolonizm) or anti-Polish sentiment are terms for negative attitudes, prejudices, and actions against Poles as an ethnic group, Poland as their country, and their culture.
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Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.
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Żoliborz
Żoliborz is one of the northern districts of the city of Warsaw.
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Bokun
Bokun is a Slavic surname.
Brest, Belarus
Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where the Bug and Mukhavets rivers meet, making it a border town.
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.
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Business valuation
Business valuation is a process and a set of procedures used to estimate the economic value of an owner's interest in a business.
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Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, led by Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, came to power following the 1989 legislative election.
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Cross of Merit (Poland)
The Cross of Merit is a Polish civil state decoration established on 23 June 1923, to recognize services to the state.
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Cross of Valour (Poland)
The Cross of Valour (Krzyż Walecznych) is a Polish military decoration. Witold Kieżun and Cross of Valour (Poland) are Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland).
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Department for International Development
The Department for International Development (DFID) was a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom, from 1997 to 2020.
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Destruction of Warsaw
The destruction of Warsaw was Nazi Germany's razing of the city in late 1944, after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising of the Polish resistance.
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Duquesne University
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit (also known as Duquesne University or Duquesne) is a private Catholic research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Economy of Poland
The economy of Poland is a high-income, industrialized, developed market with a mixed economy that serves as the sixth-largest in the European Union by nominal GDP and fifth-largest by GDP (PPP).
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Education in Poland during World War II
During World War II in Poland, education often took place underground.
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Festung Warschau
In the German language, Festung Warschau ("Fortress Warsaw") is the term used to refer to a fortified and well-defended Warsaw.
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Fox School of Business and Management
The Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management is the business school of Temple University.
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George Soros
George Soros (born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
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Grey Ranks
"Grey Ranks" (Szare Szeregi) was a codename for the underground paramilitary Polish Scouting Association (Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego) during World War II.
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Gulag
The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union.
Hanna Suchocka
Hanna Stanisława Suchocka (born 3 April 1946) is a Polish political figure, lawyer, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Chair of the Constitutional Law Department, former First Vice-President and Honorary President of the Venice Commission.
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HEC Montréal
HEC Montréal (Hautes études commerciales de Montréal; English: High Commercial Studies of Montreal) is a bilingual public business school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Home Army
The Home Army (Armia Krajowa,; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
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Honorary degree
An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements.
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Hyperinflation
In economics, hyperinflation is a very high and typically accelerating inflation.
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Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.
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Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland.
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Jan Bytnar
Jan Roman Bytnar, nom de guerre "Rudy" (Ginger) (born 6 May 1921, Kolbuszowa, Poland – died 30 March 1943, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish scoutmaster, a member of Polish scouting anti-Nazi resistance, and a lieutenant in the Home Army during the Second World War. Witold Kieżun and Jan Bytnar are Burials at Powązki Military Cemetery, home Army officers and Polish torture victims.
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Jarosław Kaczyński
Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński (born 18 June 1949) is a Polish politician.
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Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey David Sachs (born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and public policy analyst, professor at Columbia University, where he was former director of The Earth Institute.
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Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Karol Buzek (born 3 July 1940) is a Polish politician and former Member of the European Parliament from Poland.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
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Karakum Desert
The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum (Garagum,, from gara ("black") and gum ("sand"); kərɐˈkumɨ), is a desert in Central Asia.
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Kogon, Uzbekistan
Kogon (Kogon; Когон; until 1935) is a district-level city in Bukhara Region in Uzbekistan.
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Kozminski University
Kozminski University (formerly known as Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management; in Polish, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego) is a private, nonprofit business school in Warsaw, Poland; according to the Financial Times, it is considered to be "Poland’s highest rated private university".
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Kraków
(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.
Lech Kaczyński
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (18 June 194910 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010.
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Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, in Milestone Documents, National Archives of the United States, Washington, D.C., retrieved February 8, 2024; (notes: "Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed 'vital to the defense of the United States.'"; contains photo of the original bill, H.R.
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Leszek Balcerowicz
Leszek Henryk Balcerowicz (pronounced; born 19 January 1947) is a Polish economist, statesman, and Professor at Warsaw School of Economics.
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Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.
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Marek Belka
Marek Marian Belka (born 9 January 1952 in Lódź) is a Polish professor of economics and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister of Poland in two governments.
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McGill University
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Medal of Merit for National Defence
The Medal of Merit for National Defence (Medal Za Zasługi dla Obronności Kraju) is a decoration of the Ministry of National Defence of Poland.
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Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland
The Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (Polish: Medal 10-lecia Polski Ludowej) is a former Polish civil state award established by the Council of State on 23 May 1954 to recognize services to the state.
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Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945
Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945 (Polish: Medal Zwycięstwa i Wolności 1945) was a Polish military decoration awarded to persons who fought during World War II against Nazi Germany.
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Ministry of Public Security (Poland)
The Ministry of Public Security (Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego), was the secret police, intelligence and counter-espionage agency operating in the Polish People's Republic.
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Mock execution
A mock execution is a stratagem in which a victim is deliberately but falsely made to feel that their execution or that of another person is imminent or is taking place.
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Montelupich Prison
The Montelupich Prison, so called from the street in which it is located, the ulica Montelupich ("street of the Montelupi family"),Ulica Montelupich or "street of the Montelupis" itself is named after the Montelupi manor house (kamienica) located at Montelupich street Number 7, the so called Kamienica Montelupich built in the 16th century, and in the 19th century adapted as part of the Austrian military tribunal.
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Mumps
Mumps is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the mumps virus.
Muscular dystrophy
Muscular dystrophies (MD) are a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare neuromuscular diseases that cause progressive weakness and breakdown of skeletal muscles over time.
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National Bank of Poland
The Narodowy Bank Polski (the National Bank of Poland), often abbreviated to NBP, is the central bank of Poland, founded in 1945.
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National Defence University of Warsaw
The National Defence University of Warsaw (– AON) was the civil-military highest defence academic institution in Poland, located in Warszawa–Rembertów.
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NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946.
Nomenklatura
The nomenklatura (a; from nomenclatura, system of names) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy, running all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region.
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Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)
The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945.
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Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or Bundesverdienstorden, BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany.
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Order of Polonia Restituta
The Order of Polonia Restituta (Order Odrodzenia Polski, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state order established 4 February 1921.
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Otwock
Otwock (Yiddish: אָטוואָצק) is a city in the Masovian Voivodship in east-central Poland, some southeast of Warsaw, with 44,635 inhabitants (2019).
Outside support during the Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising, in 1944, ended in the capitulation of the city and its near total destruction by the German forces.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Pierre Buyoya
Pierre Buyoya (24 November 1949 – 17 December 2020) was a Burundian army officer and politician who served two terms as President of Burundi in 1987 to 1993 and 1996 to 2003.
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Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.
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Podporuchik
Podporuchik (potporučnik, podporučík, podporucznik, подпору́чик, подпоручик, podporučík) is the most junior officer in some Slavic armed forces, and is placed below the rank of lieutenant, typically corresponding to rank of second lieutenant in English-speaking countries.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Polish Academy of Sciences
The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning.
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Polish resistance movement in World War II
In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army.
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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.
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Powązki Military Cemetery
Powązki Military Cemetery (Cmentarz Wojskowy na Powązkach) is an old military cemetery located in the Żoliborz district, western part of Warsaw, Poland. Witold Kieżun and Powązki Military Cemetery are Burials at Powązki Military Cemetery.
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Praxeology
In philosophy, praxeology or praxiology is the theory of human action, based on the notion that humans engage in purposeful behavior, contrary to reflexive behavior and other unintentional behavior.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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Pro Patria Medal (Poland)
The Pro Patria Medal is a civil state decoration of Poland.
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
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Revolutions of 1989
The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world.
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Roundup (police action)
A roundup is a police / military operation of interpellation and arrest of people taken at random from a public place, or targeting a particular population by ethnicity, appearance, or other perceived membership in a targeted group.
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Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Scabies
Scabies (also sometimes known as the seven-year itch) is a contagious human skin infestation by the tiny (0.2–0.45 mm) mite Sarcoptes scabiei, variety hominis.
Second lieutenant
Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.
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Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Seton Hall University
Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Roman Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey.
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SGH Warsaw School of Economics
SGH Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, SGH Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie.) is the oldest and most prestigious business school in Poland. SGH Warsaw School of Economics was founded in 1906 as a private school named August Zieliński Private Trade Courses for Men.
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Shock therapy (economics)
In economics, shock therapy is a group of policies intended to be implemented simultaneously in order to liberalize the economy, including liberalization of all prices, privatization, trade liberalization, and stabilization via tight monetary policies and fiscal policies.
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Solidarity (Polish trade union)
Solidarity („Solidarność”), full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity" (Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy „Solidarność”, abbreviated NSZZ „Solidarność”), is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland.
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Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946)
In the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, which took place in September 1939, the territory of Poland was divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
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Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
Generał Tadeusz Komorowski (1 June 1895 – 24 August 1966), better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (after one of his wartime code-names: Bór – "The Forest") was a Polish military leader. Witold Kieżun and Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski are home Army officers, Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland), Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland), Recipients of the Silver Cross of Merit (Poland) and Warsaw Uprising insurgents.
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Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Tadeusz Marian Kotarbiński (31 March 1886 – 3 October 1981) was a Polish philosopher, logician and ethicist. Witold Kieżun and Tadeusz Kotarbiński are Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland.
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki (18 April 1927 – 28 October 2013) was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946, having held the post from 1989 to 1991.
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Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan
Türkmenbaşy (Turkmen Cyrillic: Түркменбашы, Turkmen Arabic; توركمنباشی, also spelled Turkmenbashy and Turkmenbashi, the latter a back-formation of the Cyrillic Түркменбаши), formerly known as Krasnovodsk (Красноводск), Kyzyl-Su, and Shagadam (Şagadam), is a city in Balkan Province in western Turkmenistan, on the Türkmenbaşy Gulf of the Caspian Sea.
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Temple University
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Thiamine deficiency
Thiamine deficiency is a medical condition of low levels of thiamine (vitamin B1).
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Typhoid fever
Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella typhi.
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Typhus
Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.
Tytus Maksymilian Huber
Tytus Maksymilian Huber (also known as Maksymilian Tytus Huber; 4 January 1872 in Krościenko nad Dunajcem – 9 December 1950) was a Polish mechanical engineer, educator, and scientist.
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Union of Armed Struggle
The Union of Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej; ZWZ), also translated as the Union for Armed Struggle, Association of Armed Struggle, and Association for Armed Struggle, was an underground army formed in Poland following its invasion in September 1939 by Germany and the Soviet Union that opened World War II.
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United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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Université de Montréal
The (UdeM;; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Université du Québec
The Université du Québec is a system of ten provincially-run public universities in Quebec, Canada.
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Université du Québec à Montréal
The italics (UQAM), is a French-language public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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University of Burundi
The University of Burundi (Université du Burundi, or UB) is a public university located in Bujumbura, Burundi.
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University of Warsaw
The University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public research university in Warsaw, Poland.
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Vilnius
Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.
Virtuti Militari
The War Order of Virtuti Militari (Latin: "For Military Virtue", Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari) is Poland's highest military decoration for heroism and courage in the face of the enemy at war.
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Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. Witold Kieżun and Warsaw are Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari.
Warsaw University of Technology
The Warsaw University of Technology (lit) is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland and one of the largest in Central Europe.
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Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie; Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (powstanie sierpniowe), was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.
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Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Złotów
Złotów is a town in northwestern Poland, with a population of 18,303 inhabitants (2011), seat of the Złotów County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
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Academic staff of Kozminski University
- Aleksandra Przegalińska
- Andrzej Koźmiński
- Dariusz Jemielniak
- Grzegorz Kołodko
- Krzysztof Obłój
- Monika Kostera
- Witold Kieżun
Home Army officers
- Adolf Pilch
- Antoni Chruściel
- Antoni Olechnowicz
- Bolesław Kontrym
- Bolesław Piasecki
- Elżbieta Zawacka
- Franciszek Kamiński
- Henryk Hiż
- Henryk Leliwa-Roycewicz
- Henryk Woliński
- Hieronim Dekutowski
- Józef Batory
- Józef Biss
- Józef Makowski
- Jan Bytnar
- Jan Franciszek Czartoryski
- Jan Więckowski
- Jerzy Zborowski
- Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki
- Maciej Kalenkiewicz
- Marian Bernaciak
- Romuald Rajs
- Rudolf Marszałek
- Ryszard Piotrowski
- Stanisław Aronson
- Stanisława Paleolog
- Stefan Bałuk
- Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
- Tadeusz Pełczyński
- Teresa Łubieńska
- Wacław Kopisto
- Wanda Błeńska
- Wiktoria Goryńska
- Witold Kieżun
- Witold Pilecki
- Władysław Filipkowski
Polish expatriates in Canada
- Emanuel Ax
- Henryk Bem
- Lukasz Kurgan
- Malgorzata S. Zywno
- Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
- Mieczysław G. Bekker
- Mike Staner
- Stanisław Bóbr-Tylingo
- Witold Kieżun
- Wladyslaw Metanomski
Polish expatriates in the United States
- Abraham Neumann
- Agnieszka Holland
- Andrzej Szczeklik
- Andrzej Witos
- Anna Danes
- Aryeh Leib Malin
- Bolesław Jan Czedekowski
- Dabba-Kato
- Donald Malinowski (politician)
- Edouard de Laurot
- Ela Orleans
- Gustaw Gwozdecki
- Irena Jarocka
- Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
- Izabella Scorupco
- Jakiw Palij
- Jan Kalicki
- Jan Świtkowski
- Jarosław Guzy
- Jarosław Wałęsa
- Joanna Kaczor
- Julia Hartwig
- Julian Fontana
- Kurt Katch
- Lukasz Kurgan
- Maciej Golubiewski
- Marek Piotrowski
- Marian Schmidt
- Mariusz Wodzicki
- Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
- Mieczysław G. Bekker
- Monika Borzym
- Natalia Aszkenazy
- Przemysław Reut
- Radosław Sikorski
- Roman Polanski
- Sara Stern-Katan
- Szymon Lenkowski
- Tadeusz Patzek
- Teresa Żarnowerówna
- Tola Szlagowska
- Walek Dzedzej
- Witold Hurewicz
- Witold Kieżun
- Witold Małcużyński
- Witold Rodziński
- Wojciech Zaremba
- Yosef Tekoah
Polish torture victims
- Adam Dedio
- Adam Mohuczy
- Adolf Bniński
- Agnieszka Szymkowa
- Antoni Burzyński
- Chajka Klinger
- Ester Wajcblum
- Feliks Asłanowicz
- Hieronim Dekutowski
- Jan Bytnar
- Jan Piekałkiewicz
- Jan Rodowicz
- Jan Sarkander
- John Barcoski
- Roza Robota
- Szczepan Ścibior
- Tadeusz Popek
- Witold Kieżun
- Witold Pilecki
- Zygmunt Szendzielarz
Recipients of the Pro Patria Medal
- Andrzej Papierz
- Anna Stupnicka-Bando
- Iwona Kozłowska
- Józef Walaszczyk
- Jan Józef Kasprzyk
- Kazimierz Klimczak
- Maciej Ruczaj
- Maria Mirecka-Loryś
- Mirosław Gojdź
- Piotr Paweł Morta
- Radosław Gruk
- Robert A. Varin
- Tomasz Szarota
- Witold Kieżun
- Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Kieżun
Also known as Witold Kiezun.
, National Bank of Poland, National Defence University of Warsaw, NKVD, Nomenklatura, Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Order of Polonia Restituta, Otwock, Outside support during the Warsaw Uprising, Philadelphia, Pierre Buyoya, Pneumonia, Podporuchik, Poland, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish resistance movement in World War II, Pope John Paul II, Postcolonialism, Powązki Military Cemetery, Praxeology, Prisoner of war, Pro Patria Medal (Poland), Red Army, Revolutions of 1989, Roundup (police action), Rwanda, Scabies, Second lieutenant, Second Polish Republic, Seton Hall University, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Shock therapy (economics), Solidarity (Polish trade union), Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan, Temple University, Thiamine deficiency, Typhoid fever, Typhus, Tytus Maksymilian Huber, Union of Armed Struggle, United Nations Development Programme, Université de Montréal, Université du Québec, Université du Québec à Montréal, University of Burundi, University of Warsaw, Vilnius, Virtuti Militari, Warsaw, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw Uprising, Wehrmacht, World War II, Złotów.