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Archive Information Buro NSZZ Solidarity Foundation Netherlands
Period 1980-1993
Extent 4.65 m.
Fri Consultation
History
The Information Office NSZZ Solidarnosść Netherlands was Founded in 1982, by Jan Krzysztof Minkiewicz, in response to the changed political circumstances in Poland in the early eightees. Minkiewicz was born in Stockholm in 1946 out of Polish parents. When he was two years old, he moved with his parents to the Netherlands, where he grew up in the South-Western costal town Vlissingen (Flushing). He was raised bilingual by his parents and education, studied from 1964 on Political and social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. In 1964 he made his first visit to Poland. He kept going to Poland regularly until the end of 1981. In the seventees he stayed in Poland for longer periods (living there). There he established his his first contacts with the emerging democratic opposition, in 1980 he co-founded the Foundation for Human Rights in Poland (Merpol). It mostly supported Solidarity. In 1980 and 1981 interface between Solidarity and the Netherlands after proclamation of martial law in Poland in December 1981, he was in January 1982 the founder of the Foundation for Information Buro NSZZ Solidarity Netherlands'. For many years he was the spokesperson of Solidarity in the Netherlands; Minkiewicz and the Information Bureau were in close contact with the "Coordinating Office Abroad of Solidarity" in Brussels, the mid-eighties he became active in the newly created independent peace and environmental movement "Wolność i Pokój" ("Freedom and Peace"), of which he was the official representative in the West, and this movement kept many contacts with opposition groups in Eastern Europe and the peace movement in Western Europe, including the Interchurch Peace Council (IKV), participated in many international conferences including those of the 'Convention for European Nuclear Disarmament' (END). In 1985 he co-founded the European Network for East-West Dialogue in the peace movement, which was committed to dialogue and cooperation between grassroots movements in East and West. Traveling to Poland was impossible for many years for Minkiewicz since the coup of Jaruzelski in December 1981. In April 1989 he visited Poland for the first time since the Martial Law period for two weeks. He gradually lost the Information Office of Solidarity in the Netherlands due to the changes in Poland itself and its function was abolished in the early nineties.
Contents
Notebooks 1982, received documents from 1981 to 1992, documents relating Netherlands Solidarity, Solidarity outside the Netherlands, the proclamation of martial law in Poland in 1981, Polish and Dutch peace movement, documentation and illegal Polish expenditure Polish periodicals.
Note Pieter:
The mother of Jan Krzysztof Minkiewicz was an old lady in my childhood and she lived in a wonderful green old house in Vlissingen. She was one of the few Polish contact my mother had outside Poland in the Netherlands. I remember her. She was a very fine lady. I did'nt knew Jan.
Pieter
Period 1980-1993
Extent 4.65 m.
Fri Consultation
History
The Information Office NSZZ Solidarnosść Netherlands was Founded in 1982, by Jan Krzysztof Minkiewicz, in response to the changed political circumstances in Poland in the early eightees. Minkiewicz was born in Stockholm in 1946 out of Polish parents. When he was two years old, he moved with his parents to the Netherlands, where he grew up in the South-Western costal town Vlissingen (Flushing). He was raised bilingual by his parents and education, studied from 1964 on Political and social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. In 1964 he made his first visit to Poland. He kept going to Poland regularly until the end of 1981. In the seventees he stayed in Poland for longer periods (living there). There he established his his first contacts with the emerging democratic opposition, in 1980 he co-founded the Foundation for Human Rights in Poland (Merpol). It mostly supported Solidarity. In 1980 and 1981 interface between Solidarity and the Netherlands after proclamation of martial law in Poland in December 1981, he was in January 1982 the founder of the Foundation for Information Buro NSZZ Solidarity Netherlands'. For many years he was the spokesperson of Solidarity in the Netherlands; Minkiewicz and the Information Bureau were in close contact with the "Coordinating Office Abroad of Solidarity" in Brussels, the mid-eighties he became active in the newly created independent peace and environmental movement "Wolność i Pokój" ("Freedom and Peace"), of which he was the official representative in the West, and this movement kept many contacts with opposition groups in Eastern Europe and the peace movement in Western Europe, including the Interchurch Peace Council (IKV), participated in many international conferences including those of the 'Convention for European Nuclear Disarmament' (END). In 1985 he co-founded the European Network for East-West Dialogue in the peace movement, which was committed to dialogue and cooperation between grassroots movements in East and West. Traveling to Poland was impossible for many years for Minkiewicz since the coup of Jaruzelski in December 1981. In April 1989 he visited Poland for the first time since the Martial Law period for two weeks. He gradually lost the Information Office of Solidarity in the Netherlands due to the changes in Poland itself and its function was abolished in the early nineties.
Contents
Notebooks 1982, received documents from 1981 to 1992, documents relating Netherlands Solidarity, Solidarity outside the Netherlands, the proclamation of martial law in Poland in 1981, Polish and Dutch peace movement, documentation and illegal Polish expenditure Polish periodicals.
Note Pieter:
The mother of Jan Krzysztof Minkiewicz was an old lady in my childhood and she lived in a wonderful green old house in Vlissingen. She was one of the few Polish contact my mother had outside Poland in the Netherlands. I remember her. She was a very fine lady. I did'nt knew Jan.
Pieter