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Jerzy Andrzejewski

Died in 1983

Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909-1983), born in Warsaw, son of a grocer, studied Polish philology at the University of Warsaw and made his debut in 1932 in the daily ABC. A theatre critic, then head of the literary section of the weekly Prosto z mostu, he was regarded before the war as a Catholic writer. Under the occupation, he worked for the Government Delegation of the government in exile. He left the party in 1957, signed the Letter of 34 in 1964 and was in 1976 one of the founders of the Workers' Defence Committee. He died in Warsaw on 19 April 1983.

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