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Saturday, January 22, 2005

JAN NOWAK-JEZIORANSKI


UD’s father-in-law, now 91, went to high school in Warsaw with Jan Nowak, a great defender of freedom who died yesterday. Nowak’s book, Courier from Warsaw, detailed his regular harrowing trips between London and occupied Poland to alert the world to the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the Polish underground. But in his long life Nowak also headed Radio Free Europe, advised American presidents on how best to support Polish dissidents, and generally took eloquent stands on any number of issues involving democratization, social justice, post-war Polish/Jewish relations, and internal Polish politics.


' "He served the nation in the most difficult moments of our history," former Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek was quoted as saying by the PAP news agency. "I have a feeling of great loss." '