Konstanty Gebert

Konstanty Gebert
Konstanty Gebert, Warsaw (Poland), October 11, 2005

Konstanty Gebert (pseudonym Dawid Warszawski; born 1953) is a Polish journalist[1] and a Jewish activist, as well as one of the most notable war correspondents of various Polish daily newspapers and son of Bolesław Gebert.

In 1978 he was one of the main organisers of the so-called Flying University, a secret institution of higher education educating people on various topics forbidden by the communist government of Poland. In 1980 he joined the Solidarity movement and became one of the members of the "Solidarity of Education and Technics Workers" union.

In 1989 he was one of the accredited journalists present at the Polish Round Table talks. From 1990 he has worked as a member of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews. Since 1992 he works in Gazeta Wyborcza, one of the biggest and most notable Polish daily newspapers. As a journalist of that newspaper he served as a war correspondent during the War in Yugoslavia. In 1992 and 1993 he also served as an advisor to Tadeusz Mazowiecki, then Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations and its representative in former Yugoslavia.

Since 1997 he has also acted as a head person of the Midrasz Polish-Jewish monthly.

References

  1. ^ Berger, Alan L.; Cargas, Harry J.; Nowak, Susan E. (2004). The continuing agony: from the Carmelite convent to the crosses at Auschwitz. University Press of America. pp. 148–. ISBN 9780761828037. http://books.google.com/books?id=mKM7R_UFRtMC&pg=PA148. Retrieved 5 June 2011. 

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