Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 300-50-22

Title

Program Transcripts and Related Background Materials

Date(s)

1956 - 1957

Description Level

Series

Extent and medium (processed)

3 Archival boxes, 0.38 linear meters

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

Seweryn Bialer was born in 1926. He joined to the illegal antifascist movement in Lodz in 1942. Between February 1944 and May 1945 he was a prisoner in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. From 1945 onwards he held different positions in the Polish Communist Party and in the state establishment, such as political officer of the State Police in Warsaw, Member of the Central Committee of the Polish Worker's Party, Professor at the Institute of Sociology, political editor of the newspaper 'Trybuna Ludu', author of different textbooks for political studies.

In January, 1956 Bialer defected to West -Berlin and gave an almost one-year long interview for RFE/RL in New York, which was broadcast to Poland by the Radio in the same year.

Accruals

Not Expected

System of arrangement

The documents are arranged by the transcribed programs and thereunder chronologically.

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

Unknown

Languages

English, Polish

Description Control

Archivist's note

Arranged and described by Miklós Tamási, September 30, 2002.