Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir

male, 94 years old (Israel)
Former Member of the Knesset, WarsawUniversityalumni, politician, Member of the Knesset, Civil Servant, Revisionist Zionist…Warsaw University, Hebrew University
Shamir first described a meeting he had recently had with a Vermont-based psychoanalyst, the nephew of Israel's first Prime Minister, David...
Lech Kaczyński

Lech Kaczyński

male, 60 years old
Prawo i Sprawiedliwość politician, lawyer, WarsawUniversityalumni, President of Poland, President of Warsaw, Law and Justice…From Warsaw
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński, IPA: (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i S...
Joseph Rotblat

Joseph Rotblat

male, deceased (2005)
Polish Briton, Russell-Einstein Manifesto, immigrant to the United Kingdom, WarsawUniversityalumni, Jewish person, Refugee…university of liverpool
Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS, (4 November, 1908 - 31 August, 2005) was a Polish-born British-naturalised physicist. His work on nuclear...

Bronisław Geremek

male, 77 years old
Jewish, WarsawUniversityalumni, Berele Lewartow, Partia Demokratyczna – demokraci.pl, Centre for Polish Culture, Natolin…University of Warsaw, University of Paris
Professor Bronisław Geremek (IPA: ,(born Berele Lewartow March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish social historian and politician. He is of J...
Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski

male, deceased (1983)
Polish-American, mathematical model, University of California, Berkeley, WarsawUniversityalumni, model, logic…Warsaw School of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who sp...
Adam Michnik

Adam Michnik

male, 63 years old
WarsawUniversityalumni, Erasmus Prize winner, Polish 1968 political crisis, Socjaldemokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, shock therapy, Flying University
Adam Michnik is the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza a major Polish newspaper, where he sometimes writes under the pen-names of Andrzej Zagozda...
Karol Borsuk

Karol Borsuk

male, deceased (1982)
Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Erdős number 2, WarsawUniversityalumni, Ph.D., From Warsaw, doctorate…Warsaw University
Karol Borsuk (May 8, 1905, Warsaw - January 24, 1982, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the...

Jacek Kuroń

male, deceased (2004)
historian, Member of Polish Sejm 1991-1993, Member of Polish Sejm 1993-1997, Member of Polish Sejm 1997-2001, atheist, Solidarity activist…WarsawUniversityalumni, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw University
Jacek Jan Kuroń was a Polish historian, dissident and opposition leader with the Solidarity movement. During his political career he was well k...
Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman

male, 84 years old
WarsawUniversityalumni, Polish Briton, Communist Party of Poland, immigrant to the United Kingdom, Polish United Workers' Party, Sociologist…Alumni of the London School of Economics, university of leeds, University of Tel Aviv, University of Warsaw
Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish-born sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven there by an anti-Semitic purge organized by...
Jan Karski

Jan Karski

male, deceased (2000)
resistance, extermination camps, Polish resistance, WarsawUniversityalumni, Jewish person, Educator…Georgetown University faculty, warsaw ghetto
Jan Karski, was a Polish World War II resistance fighter and scholar. He visited the Warsaw Ghetto after the summer 1942 deportations. Disguised as...