Bronisław Wildstein
Polish journalist (born 1952)
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- Bronisław Wildstein (born 11 June 1952) is a former Polish dissident, a journalist, freelance author, and, from 11 May 2006 to 28 February 2007, was the chief executive officer of Telewizja Polska (Polish state-owned television).
- The files are commonly referred to as "Wildstein's list" ( lista Wildsteina ).
- His father Szymon Wildstein was a Jewish military doctor and communist in the Second Republic of Poland.
- When he was five years old he contracted tuberculosis, and his family moved to Przemyśl for the healthier climate.
- In the 1970s, he joined the oppositional Workers' Defence Committee ( Komitet Obrony Robotnikow ), an influential highbrow forerunner to the Solidarity movement that was established in 1980; and in 1977 he co-founded the Student Committee of Solidarity ( Studencki Komitet Solidarności ).
Bronisław Wildstein (born 11 June 1952) is a former Polish dissident, a journalist, freelance author, and, from 11 May 2006 to 28 February 2007, was the chief executive officer of Telewizja Polska (Polish state-owned television). Wildstein rose to nationwide prominence in Poland in January and February 2005, after he smuggled files on informers and victims of the former communist secret police (Służba Bezpieczeństwa) from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) and distributed them to fellow journalists. The files are commonly referred to as "Wildstein's list" (lista Wildsteina).
Early life
Wildstein was born on 11 June 1952 in Olsztyn. His father Szymon Wildstein was a Jewish military doctor and communist in the Second Republic of Poland. His mother Genowefa Wildstein was an anticommunist peasant and member of the Home Army (the Polish underground army acting against Poland's World War II German and Soviet occupiers).
When he was five years old he contracted tuberculosis, and his family moved to Przemyśl for the healthier climate.
From 1971 through 1980, Wildstein studied Polish literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In the 1970s, he joined the oppositional Workers' Defence Committee (Komitet Obrony Robotnikow), an influential highbrow forerunner to the Solidarity movement that was established in 1980; and in 1977 he co-founded the Student Committee of Solidarity (Studencki Komitet Solidarności). From 1980 he lived in France, where he worked as a journalist for the Polish monthly Kontakt and for Radio Free Europe.
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