Zygmunt Zaremba

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Zygmunt Zaremba
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Zaremba circa 1955
Born
Zygmunt Witalis Zaremba

(1895-04-28)April 28, 1895
DiedOctober 5, 1967(1967-10-05) (aged 72)
Other names
  • Andrzej Czarski (or Czerski)
  • Wit Smrek
Zygmunt Zaremba as a witness during court proceedings (Brest trials) 1931 Zygmunt Zaremba 1931.jpg
Zygmunt Zaremba as a witness during court proceedings (Brest trials) 1931

Zygmunt Witalis Zaremba (born 1895, Piotrków, Poland died 5 October 1967, Sceaux, France), pseudonyms Andrzej Czarski (Czerski), Wit Smrek, was a Polish socialist activist and publicist.

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Biography

Zaremba was a member of the Youth Association for Progress and Independence (Związek Młodzieży Postępowo-Niepodległościowej; 1911), Polish Socialist Party - Opposition (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna - Opozycja; 1912–1914), then was a member of the Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna) and its Central Executive Committee (Centralny Komitet Wykonawczy; 1917–1918).

From 1918 onward, he stayed in Poland. Then, he became a member of Polish Socialist Party authorities – Supreme Council (Rada Naczelna; 1919–1939) and Central Executive Committee (1921–1924, 1926–1939). During the years of 1921–1924 he was a vice-president of its Supreme Council.

From 1922–35, he was a deputy in the Sejm. During the invasion of Poland in 1939, he organised the Robotnicza Brygada Obrony Warszawy .[ clarification needed ] Zaremba was a co-founder of conspiratory Polish Socialist Party - Freedom-Equality-Independence (PPS - Wolność-Równość-Niepodległość).

From 1944–45, he was a representative of the Council of National Unity (Rada Jedności Narodowej). In 1946, he moved to Paris, where he became a president of the Central Committee (Rada Centralna) of the Polish Socialist Party. In 1949, he co-founded Political Council (Rada Polityczna) in London. He was a president and co-founder of the International Socialist Office and then, until 1964, president of the Central-East Socialist Europe Union.

Zaremba was a co-author of Program Polski Ludowej (1941). He edited Robotnik , Pobudka, and Związkowiec, as well as the journals Światło (1947–1959) and Droga (1959–1960).

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