Jan Karski was a Polish soldier,resistance-fighter,and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland. He reported about the state of Poland,its many competing resistance factions,and also about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and its operation of extermination camps on Polish soil that were murdering Jews,Poles,and others.
Józef Oleksy was a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 7 March 1995 to 7 February 1996,when he resigned due to espionage allegations. He was chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance.
Jacek Jan Kuroń was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. Kurońwas a prominent Polish social and political figure known for his efforts at reforming societies under the control of the Soviet Union. As an educator and historian,he first postulated the concept of a de-centered movement that would question the totalitarian system and its personality cult. Kuroństarted out as an activist of the Polish Scouting Association trying to educate young people that would take charge of the future;he later co-founded with Antoni Macierewicz the Workers' Defence Committee or KOR,a major dissident organization that was superseded by Solidarity in August 1980. After the changes in independent Poland,he ran for president supported by the likes of Jan Karski and served twice as Minister of Labour and Social Policy. Kurońwas the father of chef Maciej Kuroń.
Ludwik Stanisław Dorn was a Polish conservative politician,who served as Deputy Prime Minister and member of Sejm elected on 5 November 2007.
Radom Confederation was a konfederacja of nobility (szlachta) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth formed in Radom on 23 June 1767 to prevent reforms and defend the Golden Liberties. It was formed by Russian envoy to Poland Nicholas Repnin and backed by the Russian Imperial Army as a response of Catholic nobility to the earlier Protestant confederations of Slutzk and Toruń,approximately 74,000 nobles declared their support for Radom Confederation.
Małgorzata Maria Gosiewska served as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland 2019–2023. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005,getting 4,251 votes in 19 Warsaw district as a candidate from the Law and Justice party list.
Małgorzata Maria Kidawa-Błońska is a Polish politician,film producer,and sociologist currently serving as Marshal of the Senate. She was Marshal of the Sejm from 25 June 2015 to 11 November 2015 at the end of the Seventh term's composition of the lower house,after which being voted a Deputy Marshal of the Eighth and Ninth term,each time nominated by the opposition party Civic Platform,under the marshalcy of Marek Kuchciński and Elżbieta Witek,respectively. She is first to serve as the chairperson of both houses of the Polish Parliament.
PawełRobert Kowal is a Polish politician and former Member of the European Parliament. During his time in the EP,he served as the Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament.
Jan Łukasz Ołdakowski is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005,getting 3939 votes in Warsaw I,standing for Law and Justice. He joined Poland Comes First when that party split from Law and Justice in 2010.
PawełJanusz Poncyljusz is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005,getting 4232 votes in Warsaw I as a candidate on the Law and Justice list. In November 2010,he moved to the new party Poland Comes First.
was a Polish forester,university teacher and politician who served as Minister of Environment in the cabinets of Jerzy Buzek (1997–1999),Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (2005–2007),Jarosław Kaczyński (2007),Beata Szydło (2015–2017) and Mateusz Morawiecki (2017–2018).
Krzysztof Józef Tchórzewski is a Polish engineer and politician. He serves as the Minister of Energy in the cabinet of Beata Szydło. Prior to this,Tchórzewski was a minister without portfolio.
PawełKsawery Zalewski is a Polish politician and unaffiliated member of the Sejm and the European Parliament. He has been a member of the Sejm from 1991—1993,2005—2007,and 2019—2023 Until May 2021,he was affiliated with Civic Platform (PO).
Grodno Sejm was the last Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Grodno Sejm,held in autumn 1793 in Grodno,Grand Duchy of Lithuania is infamous because its deputies,bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire,passed the act of Second Partition of Poland. The Sejm started on 17 June and ended on 23 November 1793. It ratified the division of the country in a futile attempt to prevent its subsequent complete annexation two years later in the 1795 Third Partition of Poland.
The University of Warsaw is a public research university in Warsaw,Poland. Established on November 19,1816,it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country,offering 37 different fields of study as well as 100 specializations in humanities,technical,and natural sciences.
Jan Karol Dolski of Kościesza (1637–1695) was a member of the nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Throughout his life he held a number of posts,including the post of Grand Marshal of Lithuania,Court Marshal of Lithuania,and Cup-bearer. He was also the starost of Pinsk and was responsible for extending that town considerably.
Warsaw I,officially known as Constituency no. 19,is one of the 41 constituencies of the Sejm,the lower house of the Parliament of Poland,the national legislature of Poland. The constituency was established as Constituency no. 1 in 1991 following the re-organisation of constituencies across Poland. It was renamed Sejm Constituency no. 19 in 2001 following another nationwide re-organisation of constituencies. It is conterminous with the city of Warsaw. Electors living abroad or working aboard ships and oil rigs are included in this constituency. The constituency currently elects 20 of the 460 members of the Sejm using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2023 parliamentary election it had 1,993,723 registered electors.
MichałPawełDworczyk is a Polish politician. Dworczyk worked as an adviser for Eastern European and Polonia affairs for Prime Ministers Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński between 2005 and 2007,and later served as an adviser to President Lech Kaczyński from 2009 to 2010. In the 2015 parliamentary election,Dworczyk was elected to the Sejm as a member of the Law and Justice party.
PawełWłodzimierz Szałamacha is a Polish politician,member of the National Bank of Poland Management Board,and a former Minister of Finance.
Dariusz Karol Bachura,styling himself Karol Bachura is a Polish diplomat with the rank of Ambassador-at-large,specialist in the region of Southeastern Europe;an ambassador to Macedonia (2007–2011) and Albania (2016–2021).
