Andrzej Zozula

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Andrzej Zozula (born October 11, 1950 in Warsaw) is a Polish economist, self-government activist, opposition leader in the Polish People's Republic and the Polish Jewish community. Curriculum vitae

In 1975 he graduated in economics at the University of Warsaw. Between 1972 and 1973 he was active in the Socialist Youth Union. From 1973, he worked as an economist at the Bumar Foreign Trade Enterprise, the Central Association of Housing Cooperatives and the Central Research and Development Center for Packaging.

He was active in the democratic opposition during the Polish People's Republic. He was a co-worker of the Workers' Defense Committee and the Social Self-Defense Committee "KOR". In 1977 he was removed from the doctoral studies at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences for signing the so-called. Declaration of Democratic Movement. In 1978 he was a co-founder of the Temporary Committee for Peasant Self-Defense of the Land of Lublin. He was arrested on August 28, 1980, but after 5 days he was released under August Agreements. In 1977-1978 and 1980 he was a co-worker of "Robotnik" and in 1979 "Placówka". In 1981 he participated in agricultural occupation strikes in Ustrzyki Dolne and Rzeszow. Interned on December 13, 1981. He was imprisoned in prisons in Białołęka, Załęż and Kielce. He retired in October 1982. He soon joined the Independent Publishing House.

In the years 1989-1991 he was the director of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, and in 1991-1994 the deputy head of the commune of Jabłonna. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked for the Jewish community. In 1997 he became director of the office and a member of the board of the Jewish Religious Communities Association in Poland and a member of the board of the Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw.

In 2006, for outstanding contributions to the independence of the Republic of Poland, for his work in favor of democratic change in the country, he was decorated by President Lech Kaczyński with the Commander Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Bibliography

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