Zygmunt Zaremba

), pseudonyms "Andrzej Czarski" ("Czerski"), "Wit Smrek", was Polish socialist activist and publicist.

Biography

Zaremba was member of the Youth Association for Progress and Independence ("Związek Młodzieży Postępowo-Niepodległościowej"; 1911), Polish Socialist Party - Opposition ("Polska Partia Socjalistyczna - Opozycja"; 1912–1914), then member of the Polish Socialist Party ("Polska Partia Socjalistyczna") and its Central Executive Committee ("Centralny Komitet Wykonawczy"; 1917–1918).

Since 1918 he stayed in Poland. Then, he was member of Polish Socialist Party authorities – Supreme Council ("Rada Naczelna"; 1919–1939) and Central Executive Committee (1921–1924, 1926–1939). During the years of 1921–1924 he was a vice-president of its Supreme Council.

In the years of 1922–1935 Zaremba was a deputy of a Sejm. During the Invasion of Poland (1939) he organised the "Robotnicza Brygada Obrony Warszawy". Zaremba was a co-founder of conspiratory Polish Socialist Party - Freedom-Equality-Independence ("PPS - Wolność-Równość-Niepodległość") and its administration member. In the years of 1944–1945 representative of the Council of National Unity ("Rada Jedności Narodowej"). In 1946 he moved to Paris, where he became a president of the Central Committee ("Rada Centralna") of the Polish Socialist Party. In 1949 he co-founded Political Council ("Rada Polityczna") in London. He was a president and co-founder of the International Socialist Office and then, until 1964, president of the Central-East Socialist Europe Union.

Zaremba was a co-author of "Program Polski Ludowej" (1941). He was an editor of party-press "Robotnik", "Pobudka", "Związkowiec". Also an editor of "Światło" (1947–1959) and "Droga" (1959–1960).

Notable works

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last=Czerski
first=Andrzej
title=Od Borysowa do Rygi
year=1930
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title=Racjonalizacja - kryzys - proletariat
year=1932
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title=PPS w Polsce niepodległej (1918-1932)
year=1933
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title=Obrona Warszawy
year=1939
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title=Obrona Warszawy
location=London
year=1940
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title=Powstanie sierpniowe
year=1944
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title=Les transformations sociales en Pologne
location=Paris
year=1952
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title=Wojna i konspiracja
location=London
year=1957
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title=Przemiany w ruchu komunistycznym
location=Paris
year=1965
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title=Wspomnienia. Pokolenie przełomu 1905-1919
year=1968

References

*cite web
title=Zaremba Zygmunt Witalis
work=Internetowa encyklopedia PWN
url=http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=4000415
accessdate=2007-11-26
language=Polish
publisher=Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN
*cite web
title=Zaremba Zygmunt Witalis
work=WIEM Encyklopedia
url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/43606,,,,zaremba_zygmunt_witalis,haslo.html
language=Polish
accessdate=2007-11-26

External links

* [http://worldcat.org/search?q=Zygmunt+Zaremba&fq=ap%3AZygmunt+Zaremba&qt=facet_ap%3A Zygmunt Zaremba] at WorldCat

Persondata
NAME=Zalemba, Zygmunt Witalis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Czarski, Andrzej (pseudonym); Czerski, Andrzej (pseudonym); Smrek, Wit (pseudonym)
SHORT DESCRIPTION=socialist activist, publicist
DATE OF BIRTH=1895
PLACE OF BIRTH=Piotrków, Poland
DATE OF DEATH=October 5, 1967
PLACE OF DEATH=Sceaux, France