Ambassador Feinstein Honors Memory of Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

21 January 2010

Ambassador Feinstein lays flowers at the grave of Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

Ambassador Feinstein, along with Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich, General Franciszek Gągor, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, and Jacek Kozłowski, Governor of Mazowieckie Province, attended a wreath-laying to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Jan Nowak-Jeziorański.  Nowak-Jeziorański, the legendary “Courier from Warsaw” and a prime mover behind Poland’s successful efforts to join NATO, was a life-long patriot and political activist.  Nowak-Jeziorański served during World War II as a courier between the commanders of the Home Army and the Polish government in exile, participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, and survived to document the horrors that occurred on Polish soil during the Nazi occupation. After the war, Nowak-Jeziorański actively promoted a free and independent Poland, heading Radio Free Europe’s Polish section until 1976.  He was national director of the Polish American Congress from 1979-1996, and served as a consultant to the National Security Council regarding Polish affairs.