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Post by Bonobo on Aug 29, 2020 13:01:33 GMT 1
Henryk Wujec (25 December 1940[1] – 15 August 2020) was a Polish politician who served as a member of the Sejm.[2] Wujec was born in Podlesie, Biłgoraj County. As a child, he was interned at Majdanek concentration camp. He graduated from Warsaw University with a degree in Physics and went on to study electron technology as a postgraduate in 1970.[3]
A physicist by profession,[1] Wujec was an activist in the Solidarity movement of the 1980s.[4] In 1984, he was imprisoned at Białołęka for his political activities.[1]
Wujec was Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the government of Jerzy Buzek in 1999-2000. He acted as an advisor to Bronisław Komorowski when the latter became President of Poland in 2010.[3]
He died at the age of 79 on 15 August 2020 after a long illness. He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery and posthumously awarded Poland's highest order, the Order of the White Eagle.[5] ![](https://www.rp.pl/storyimage/RP/20151113/PLUSMINUS/311139984/AR/0/AR-311139984.jpg?minW=200&minH=200&exactW=600&exactH=315&exactFit=crop&lastModified=20181126163400) ![](https://n-3-4.dcs.redcdn.pl/file/o2/redefine/cp/qd/qd2h3sowfdmb6a8cr7o25gykzwnk78iq.jpg) ![](https://i.wpimg.pl/2000x0/filerepo.grupawp.pl/api/v1/display/embed/d18b028c-b29a-458e-87c5-db5432ee1ca4) ![](https://bi.im-g.pl/im/40/ff/18/z26211904V,Henryk-Wujec.jpg)
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