Jan Nowak-Jeziorański
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (actually Zdzisław Antoni Jeziorański ; born October 3, 1914 in Berlin , † January 20, 2005 in Warsaw ) was a Polish journalist and writer .
Life
His ancestors are: Alexander Johann, landowner in the Plock district in 1829 (from a non-aristocratic branch of the family) and Teresa, nee. Wołowska. Zdzisław Jeziorański studied economics at the University of Poznan .
Jeziorański worked from 1940 in occupied Poland under the code names Jan Nowak , Jan Kwiatkowski and Adalbert Kozlowski in the department for psychological warfare of the Polish underground army , as first lieutenant of the paratroopers Cichociemni and was the secret liaison officer to the government- in- exile in London .
From 1948 Nowak worked in London for Radio BBC . Between 1952 and 1975 Nowak headed the Polish department of Radio Free Europe in Munich . He then headed the American Foreign Politics Congress .
After 58 years of emigration, Jan Nowak-Jeziorański returned to Poland on July 21, 2002 and lived in Warsaw again .
honors and awards
- 1993: Commander with the Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- 1994: Order of the White Eagle
- Order of Polonia Restituta
- 1996: Medal of Freedom (The Presidential Medal of Freedom )
Fonts
- Courier from Warsaw. 1978.
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The fight in the ether. 1985.
- Excerpt from: Krzysztof Dybciak (Ed.): Poland in Exile. An anthology. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000, pp. 309-318.
- Poland from afar. 1988.
literature
- Andrzej Świdlicki: Pięknoduchy, radiowcy, spiedzy. Radio Wolnej Europy dla zaawansowanych . 2 volumes. W-wo Lena, Warsaw 2019.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nowak-Jeziorański, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jeziorański, Zdzisław Antoni; Nowak, Jan; Kwiatkowski, Jan; Kozlowski, Adalbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish journalist, writer and patriot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 2005 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |