Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, 91; Veteran of Polish Resistance, Official of Radio Free Europe
LA Times
Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, a wartime courier for the Polish anti-Nazi resistance and the director of Radio Free Europe’s Polish service during the Cold War, has died, Polish officials said Friday. He was 91.
Nowak-Jezioranski died Thursday in a Warsaw hospital. The cause of death was not reported.
“A great Pole, a hero and a great authority has gone,” former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki said on state radio.
Nowak-Jezioranski fought in the brief 1939 campaign after Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland. After his country was defeated and occupied, he joined the resistance movement and fought in the 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis.
