Tadeusz Brzeziński

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Tadeusz Brzeziński

Tadeusz Brzeziński (born February 21, 1896 in Złoczów , Austria-Hungary , † January 7, 1990 in Montreal ) was a Polish consular officer and the father of Zbigniew Brzeziński , the US National Security Advisor under US President Jimmy Carter .

Brzeziński was born in Złoczów, Galicia , today's Zolochiv in the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast . He studied law and political science in Lwów and Vienna . As a volunteer in the Polish freedom movement, Brzeziński was involved in the Battle of Lwów during the Polish-Ukrainian War between 1918 and 1920, and in the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet War near Warsaw in 1920.

He entered the diplomatic and consular service of the Second Polish Republic and worked in Essen , Lille , Leipzig , Kharkiv in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and in Montreal, where he finally lived after the Communists came to power in Poland after the Second World War .

During his time in Leipzig Brzeziński was before the Second World War involved in efforts that European Jews from the concentration camps of the Nazis to save. In 1978, his efforts on behalf of the Jewish people were recognized by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin .

He was President of the Canadian-Polish Congress from 1952 to 1962 and helped found the Polish World Congress in 1975 . Until his retirement he worked in Québec for the Ministry of Culture and helped set up French language centers in small towns.

Brzeziński died of pneumonia in Montreal at the age of 93 . In addition to his sons Zbigniew and Lech Brzeziński, an engineer, he left seven grandchildren, including Mika , Mark and Ian Brzezinski .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tadeusz Brzezinski; Former Polish Consul General . In: Los Angeles Times , January 13, 1990. Retrieved August 15, 2011.  
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Saxon: Tadeusz Brzezinski, Ex-Polish Diplomat, Dies at 93 in Canada . In: The New York Times , January 9, 1990. Retrieved August 15, 2011. 
  3. ^ Józef Frankiewicz: Zbigniew Brzeziński i jego związki z Przemyślem . San-Set, Przemyśl 1999, ISBN 83-911659-0-6 (accessed August 15, 2011).
  4. ^ Mark Brzeziński: My grandfather consul Tadeusz Brzeziński . In: Poland in Leipzig - then now . Europa-Haus Leipzig eV, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-933312-12-4 (accessed on August 15, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Brzeziński, Tadeusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Złoczów
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1990
Place of death Montreal