Zambrowski Roman (Rachmil)

Zambrowski Roman (Rachmil) (15 July 1909, Warsaw – 19 August 1977, Warsaw) – political activist, communist, colonel in the Polish People’s Army.

He was involved in the communist movement since the period of the Second Polish Republic. After WWII, he sat in the State National Council and the Polish Sejm. He was a member of the Council of State (1947–1955), the Minister of State Auditing (1955–1956), the vice-president of the Supreme Audit Office (1963–1968). He joined the Polish United Workers’ Party in 1948 and was its member until March 1968, when he was removed from the party and the Supreme Audit Office and superannuated as a “political bankrupt.” He is the father of Antoni Zambrowski.

Bibliography:

Marzec 1968 w dokumentach MSW, vol. 1: Niepokorni, scientific supervision and preface by F. Dąbrowski, P. Gontarczyk, P. Tomasik, Warsaw 2008, p. 84.

Martyna Rusiniak-Karwat, Ph.D.

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Zambrowski Roman (Rachmil)

Baczko Bronisław (13 June 1924, Warsaw – 29 August 2016, Geneva), philosopher, expert in the history of social thought.

In 1952, he became an academic worker at the University of Warsaw, and in the years 1965–1968, he held the position of professor extraordinarius. In the aftermath of the March protests at the University of Warsaw, he was dismissed on 31 March 1968 by virtue of a decision made by the Minister of Higher Education. The same year, he was also removed from the Polish United Workers’ Party. He migrated from Poland in 1969.

Bibliography:

Marzec 1968 w dokumentach MSW, vol. 1: Niepokorni, scientific supervision and preface by F. Dąbrowski, P. Gontarczyk, P. Tomasik, Warsaw 2008, p. 112.

The entry was written by Martyna Rusiniak-Karwat, Ph.D. on the basis of source materials of the PWN printing house

“Estranged: March ’68 and Its Aftermath”
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