The former Foreign Minister of Poland Władysław Bartoszewski in his speech at the ceremony of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 27 January 2005, said: " The Polish resistance movement kept informing and alerting the free world to the situation.

On stage, from right to left: Piotr Gajewski, Ferdynand Marek Arczyński, Władysław Bartoszewski, Adolf Berman and Tadeusz Rek

Members included Władysław Bartoszewski, later Polish Foreign Minister ( 1995, 2000 ).

Nonetheless, " Władysław Bartoszewski, who worked for Żegota during the war estimates that ' at least several hundred thousand Poles ... participated in various ways and forms in the rescue action Jews.

Władysław Bartoszewski was present at the event.

Władysław Bartoszewski ( born February 19, 1922 in Warsaw ) is a Polish politician, social activist, journalist, writer, historian, former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, World War II Resistance fighter, Polish underground activist, participant of the Warsaw Uprising, twice the Minister of Foreign Affairs, chevalier of the Order of the White Eagle, and an honorary citizen of Israel and a member of the International Honorary Council of the European Academy of Diplomacy.

Władysław Bartoszewski took part in many international conferences and seminars dedicated to the issues of World War II, the Jewish genocide, Polish-German and Polish-Jewish relationships as well as the role of Polish intellectualists in politics.

Since November 21, 2007, Władysław Bartoszewski has been the Secretary of State in the Office of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister Donald Tusk ) and plenipotentiary for international affairs.

Władysław Bartoszewski and his wife Zofia have a son Władysław T. Bartoszewski, born 1955.

Whilst Władysław Bartoszewski has no formal higher education diploma ( no University degree ), he uses the title of a " professor " suggesting that he has an academic degree, which is often a source of controversy especially in Poland as well as in Germany.

Władysław Bartoszewski w rozmowie z Joanną Szwedowską ( posłowie: Andrzej Paczkowski ; Rosner i Wspólnicy 2005, ISBN 83-89217-66-X )

* Władysław Bartoszewski: wywiad-rzeka ( rozmowy z Michałem Komarem ; Świat Książki 2006, ISBN 83-247-0441-8 )

The article is the translation of its Polish version ( Władysław Bartoszewski ), with additions from the German version.

Image: 20040729 Wladyslaw Bartoszewski by Kubik Warsaw July 2004 01. JPG | Władysław Bartoszewski, Warsaw, July 29, 2004

Image: 20050314 Wladyslaw Bartoszewski and Stefan Wilkanowicz by Kubik. JPG | Władysław Bartoszewski and Stefan Wilkanowicz, Warsaw, March 14, 2005

Image: 20070212 Wieslaw Chrzanowski and Jozef Zycinski and Wladyslaw Bartoszewski. jpg | Wiesław Chrzanowski, Archbishop Józef Życiński and Władysław Bartoszewski, Kraków, February 12, 2007

Adam Boniecki, Zofia and Władysław Bartoszewski, Kraków, February 13, 2007

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Actors before Hamlet by Władysław Czachórski ( 1875 ), National Museum, Warsaw | National Museum in Warsaw.

' speech to his brother Władysław Szpilman in a Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, during the Nazi occupation in World War II.

Władysław Gomułka, at the height of his popularity, on 24 October 1956, addressing hundreds of thousands of people in Warsaw, asked for an end to demonstrations and a return to work.

He was commemorated in Warsaw with Zygmunt's Column, commissioned by his son and successor, Władysław IV.

When Władysław was king ( as Władysław IV ) he oversaw the production of at least ten operas during the late 1630s and 1640s, making Warsaw a center of the art.

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor's proposal of marriage between Władysław and Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria ( sister of future Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor ) arrived in Warsaw somewhere during spring 1636.

Władysław Szpilman studied the piano in the early 1930s in Warsaw and Berlin.

Władysław Szpilman and his family, along with all other Jews living in Warsaw, were forced to move into a " Jewish District "— the Warsaw Ghetto — on 31 October 1940.

Władysław Szpilman's grave in Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw

Władysław Taczanowski ( March 1, 1819, Jabłonna – January 17, 1890, Warsaw ) was a Polish zoologist.

" On 19 September 1940, he deliberately went out during a Warsaw street roundup ( łapanka ) and was caught by the Germans, along with some 2, 000 innocent civilians ( among them, Władysław Bartoszewski ).

* Władysław Pilars de Pilar-( Opatówek, 1874-Chorzów, 1952 ), a literature professor at Warsaw University, poet and entrepreneur

Negri gained much popularity during her short screen career in Warsaw, acting alongside many of the most renowned Polish film artists of the time, including Józef Węgrzyn, Władysław Grabowski, Józef Galewski, and Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski.

On June 27, 1942, a new tradition was born: to commemorate the patron saint's day of the Polish President Władysław Raczkiewicz and the Commander-in-Chief Władysław Sikorski, members of the Armia Krajowa stamped several hundred copies of the German-backed propaganda newspaper, Nowy Kurier Warszawski ( The New Warsaw Courier ), with the Kotwica.

* Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii ( History of Philosophy ), 3 vols., Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978.

In September 1939, Bartoszewski took part in the civil defense of Warsaw as a stretcher-bearer.

On September 19, 1940, Bartoszewski was detained in the Warsaw district of Żoliborz during a surprise round-up of members of the public ( łapanka ), along with some 2, 000 innocent civilians ( among them, Witold Pilecki ).

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski on May 21, 2005 at the International Book Fair in Warsaw, Poland, promoting his Polish language book Moja Jerozolima, mój Izrael ( My Jerusalem, my Israel )

From October 1941 until 1944 Bartoszewski studied Polish Studies in the secret Humanist Department of Warsaw University at the time when higher education of Poles was outlawed by the German occupational authorities.

Bartoszewski remained a member of Żegota until the Warsaw Uprising.

As a part of his activities for Żegota and the Jewish Report, Bartoszewski organized assistance for the participants of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski at the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising in 2004

On August 1, 1944, Bartoszewski began his participation in the Warsaw Uprising.

On the September 20, by the order of the commandant of the Warsaw District of the AK, General Antoni “ Monter ” Chruściel, Bartoszewski was decorated with the Silver Cross of Merit.

Bartoszewski left Warsaw on October 7, 1944.