- Edward Ochab
Infobox_President
name=Edward Ochab
order=First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party
term_start=March 20 ,1956
term_end=October 21 ,1956
predecessor=Bolesław Bierut
successor=Władysław Gomułka
spouse=Liwa Ochab "née" OshpitzinEdward Ochab (
August 16 ,1906 -May 1 ,1989 ) was a Polish Communist politician promoted to the position of the First Secretary of the Communist party in thePeople's Republic of Poland betweenMarch 20 andOctober 21 ,1956 , just prior toGomułka thaw . Political coniuncturalist with aStalinist past, Ochab served as the head of state in the years 1964-1968. He withdrew from politics in 1968 in the aftermath of the anti-Semitic campaign conducted by his own governingPolish United Workers' Party .The wife of Edward Ochab, Liwa, stemmed from a Hasidic family of Oshpitzin, residing in
Israel , with whom the couple maintained correspondence.References
* Chaim Wolnerman, "Water Carriers" [http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Oswiecim1/osw394.html]
* The New York Times, May 3, 1989, "Edward Ochab Is Dead; Poland Ex-Official" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEEDF1239F930A35756C0A96F948260]ee also
* [http://www.amazon.com/Them-Stalins-Puppets-Teresa-Toranska/dp/0060914939 "Them: Stalin's Polish Puppets"] by
Teresa Torańska
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