Janusz Kulas

Janusz Kulas (aliases: "Eddie Polo"; "Włoski bandyta (Italian Bandit)") (6 December 1936, Poznań – 8 December 1972, Poznań) was a manual worker, participant of the Poznań June, steadfast participant of the "Trial of Ten", victim of persecution in Polish People's Republic.

Biography Janusz Kulas was born in 1936 in Poznań. He finished the first year of the Technikum Budowy Taboru Kolejowego (Train Building Technical School). Before the Poznań June he worked as a diver for the Przedsiębiorstwo Transportowego Budownictwa Miejskiego and was a ticket tout. On 28 June 1956 he convinced the company's employees to join the ongoing peaceful demonstration in Poznań. He himself stood in the vanguard, carrying a banner with the sentence "Żądamy chleba" ("We demand the bread"). After the demonstration escalated into a riot he took part in the acquisition of arms from the Military Study of the Wyższa Szkoła Rolnicza (Agricultural Academy), disarming of the VII MO Commissariat at Grunwaldzka 34 and in the fights on Dąbrowskiego Street. During these fights Janusz Kulas contributed to the procurement of a tank and made an unsuccessful attempt to bring it online. After the community riots were suppressed, he was arrested on 30 June 1956. During the investigation he was tortured into incriminating other participants of the demonstration and riot. The "Trial of Ten" began on 5 October 1956 in the Sąd Wojewódzki (Voivodeship Court) in Poznań, led by judge Dionizy Piotrowski. Prosecutor Czesław Borkowski, together with two other prosecutors…Citește mai mult

Private life Son of Józef Kulas, participant of 1939 defensive war, and Aniela Just. Married (1958) with Eugenia Maria Zajdel (born 1937). Father of three children: one daughter, Wioletta, and two sons, Piotr and Janusz.

External links Illustrated article about "Trial of Ten" (Order in red court, disorder in red ranks) , p. 53, at Google Books "Film about "Trial of Ten"". Polska Kronika Filmowa 43/56. 1956-10-17.