Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

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Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (Polish: [ˈjan ˈnɔ.vak jɛ.ʑɔˈraɲ.ski]; 2 October 1914 – 20 January 2005) was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. He served during the Second World War as one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army. He is best remembered for his work as an emissary shuttling between the commanders of the Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile in London and other Allied governments which gained him the nickname "Courier from Warsaw", and for his participation in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war he worked as the head of the Polish section of Radio Free Europe, and later as a security advisor to the US presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. In 1996, President Bill Clinton awarded him with America's highest civilian award the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was born Zdzisław Antoni Jeziorański, (Jeziora Coat of Arms) in Berlin, but used a number of noms de guerre during the war, the best known of which was Jan Nowak which he later added to his original surname.

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Biography Zdzisław Jeziorański was born on 2 October 1914 in Berlin. He attended Gimnazjum i Liceum im. Stefana Batorego in Warsaw. After finishing his studies in economics in 1936, he worked as a teaching assistant at Poznań University. Mobilized in 1939, he fought in the Polish Army as an artillery non-commissioned officer. He was taken prisoner of war by the Germans in Volhynia, but managed to escape and returned to Warsaw. Most of his colleagues were taken prisoners of war by the Soviets and later killed in the Katyn massacre. He quickly joined the Polish resistance. After 1940 he became the main organiser of the Akcja N, a secret organisation preparing German-language newspapers and other propaganda material pretending to be official German publications, to wage psychological warfare against German troops. He also served as an envoy between the commanders of the Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile and other allied governments. During his first trips to Sweden and Great Britain he informed the Western governments of the fate of Poland under German and Soviet occupation. He was also the first to report the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. During one of such missions, in July 1944, he returned to Warsaw…Citește mai mult

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Censorship in Russia A selection of Nowak's texts has been confiscated in Saint Petersburg, Russia by the FSB.

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Awards Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari (1944, highest Polish military award)

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Cross of Valour (Krzyż Walecznych) Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic (1993) Order of the White Eagle (highest Polish award, 1994) Presidential Medal of Freedom (highest civilian award in the United States, 1996) Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (the highest Lithuanian civilian award, 1998) King's Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom (United Kingdom)

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Ksawery Pruszyński Award (2001) Man of Reconciliation (2002), awarded by the Polish Council of Christians and Jews for his contribution to Christian-Jewish dialogue in Poland Wiktor Award and Superwiktor (2003) Awards of the Academy of Television Gold Statue of the Business Centre Club for his contribution to the development of Polish democracy awarded by Business Centre Club (2003) Honorary citizen of Warsaw, Gdansk and Kraków Prize. Xavier Pruszynski, granted by the Polish PEN Club

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Among other books, he wrote: Polska droga ku wolnosci, 1952–1973, London, 1974. ISBN 0-901342-19-X Courier from Warsaw (Kurier z Warszawy, published in London 1978, Polish underground edition 1981, official edition in 1989, published in English in 1982 by Wayne State University Press) ISBN 0-8143-1725-1 Ideological competition in United States' strategy, Polish American Congress, 1980.

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Polska została sobą, 1980. ISBN 0-902352-16-4 Wojna w eterze (War on the Radio, memoirs 1948–1956), 1986. ISBN 0-903705-53-2 Kryptonim "Odra" (Code-name Odra), Warsaw, 1986. ISBN 83-11-07358-9 Polska z oddali. Wspomnienia 1956–1976 (Poland from the distance), 1988 Poland and Germany (Occasional paper / East European Studies), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1991. Z dziejów Armii Krajowej w inspektoracie Płocko-Sierpeckim, Płock, 1992. ISBN 83-900609-0-6 W poszukiwaniu nadziei (In Search for Hope), 1993 Rozmowy o Polsce, Warsaw, 1995. ISBN 83-07-02466-8 Polska wczoraj, dzis i jutro (Poland today, tomorrow and the day after), Warsaw, 1999. ISBN 83-07-02680-6 Listy 1952–1998 (Letters 1952–1998), Wrocław, 2001. ISBN 83-7095-052-3 Poland's Road to NATO, Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Ossolineum, Wrocław 2006, ISBN 83-7095-079-5

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In popular culture A dramatic feature film about the wartime experiences of Nowak-Jeziorański and the Warsaw Uprising, entitled Kurier (The Messenger; U.S. title: The Resistance Fighter), was released in Poland in 2019 and in the United States in 2020. Directed by Polish filmmaker Wladyslaw Pasikowski, it stars Philippe Tłokiński as Nowak-Jeziorański.