Blajfer-Weintraub Bogusława

Blajfer-Weintraub Bogusława (24 October 1945, Stalinsk – 24 February 2002, Bielsko-Biała), democratic opposition activist in the Polish People’s Republic.

In 1964, she became associated with the oppositionist “commando.” In her flat, she hosted meetings of a group of students headed by Józef Dajczgewand, one of the leaders of the March 1968 student protests. In February 1968 she collected signatures of students from Wrocław on the petition to the Sejm, condemning the ban on the performance of Dziady in the National Theatre and “the policy of negating progressive traditions of the Polish nation.” During the events of March 1968, she wrote and distributed pamphlets, some of which she produced at her house with the use of the wringer forming part of the “Frania” washing machine. In August 1968, together with Andrzej Seweryn and Eugeniusz Smolar, she printed and distributed leaflets criticising the invasion of the Warsaw Pact on Czechoslovakia. On 30 August 1968, she was arrested, and on 23 September 1969, she was sentenced to three years in prison for attempting to overthrow the regime. Following the 1969 amnesty, her sentence was reduced to 1.5 years, including the period of detention before the trial. She was released from prison in December 1970.

Bibliography:

Friszke A., Anatomia Buntu. Kuroń, Modzelewski i komandosi, Kraków 2010.

The entry was written by Martyna Rusiniak-Karwat, Ph.D. on the basis of source materials of the Virtual Shtetl

 

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