1. Stefan Michnik was a military judge of the Soviet-dominated regime in post-World War II Poland, and a captain in the communist Polish People's Army.
12 Facts About Stefan Michnik
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Many of those persecuted by Michnik fought against Nazi Germany during World War II, as members of the Polish resistance.
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Stefan Michnik's mother was a Polish-Jewish teacher in Drohobycz and an activist for the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, the Communist Party of Poland, and the Stalinist Union of Polish Patriots.
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Stefan Michnik's father was a Jewish lawyer and communist activist, executed around 1937 in the Soviet Union during the Great Purge.
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Stefan Michnik's half-brother was Adam Stefan Michnik, the editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.
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Stefan Michnik became a judge in postwar Poland after completing an eight-month course for military judges in Jelenia Gora.
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Stefan Michnik was first recruited by the Information Bureau under the pseudonym Kazimierczak but fired 11 months later, and was given severance pay of 1,000 zlotys.
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The list of Polish Army officers sentenced by Stefan Michnik, and rehabilitated without exception included:.
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Stefan Michnik lived as a retired librarian in a small town of Storvreta near Uppsala.
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Stefan Michnik built connections with Radio Free Europe and the Paris-based Kultura, where he wrote articles under the anonym "Karol Szwedowicz".
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Stefan Michnik had claimed that he was not aware of the death sentences, which, according to him, was a decision made higher up in the judicial hierarchy.
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Stefan Michnik died on 27 July 2021, at the age of 91.