Juliusz Kulesza (19 May 1928 – 5 February 2025) was a Polish graphic designer, writer, and participant of the Warsaw Uprising, an officer in the Polish Army and an author of books on World War II.
Juliusz Kulesza (19 May 1928 – 5 February 2025) was a Polish graphic designer, writer, and participant of the Warsaw Uprising, an officer in the Polish Army and an author of books on World War II.
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Personal life Kulesza grew up in Warsaw, mostly in the Old Town and Żoliborz. His parents worked at the Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW) during the interwar period. He spent the occupation in Warsaw as a student of secret junior high school classes and an evening printing school. In the years 1942–1944, he was an apprentice draftsman at PWPW (renamed Staatsdruckerei). He fought in the Old Town in the duration of the Warsaw Uprising. Soldier of the Home Army in the independent group PWB/17/S (Underground Banknote Factory), participant in the battles for the PWPW redoubt, awarded the Cross of Valor. His nickname was "Julek". After the uprising, he escaped from the Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków. In the years 1945–1948 he lived in Łódź, where he passed his matura at the Secondary School named after Gabriel Narutowicz. In the summer of 1948 he returned to Warsaw. A student of the State Higher School of Fine Arts, and from 1950, the Academy of Fine Arts, after the merger of both Universities. In 1954, he obtained a diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Graphics (studio of Prof. Tadeusz Kulisiewicz). Member of the Association of Polish Artists and…
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Medals
Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2001, for outstanding contributions to the independence of the Republic of Poland, for social activities for veterans' organizations)
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
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Medal "For popularizing the Warsaw Uprising"
Badge of Honor "For Merits to Warsaw"
honorary badges of veteran communities: "Leśnik" group, "Róg" group, "Dzik" and "Pięść" battalions