Biography

Coming from peasant family, he studied philology

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

 at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. He then became professor of Polish language in a gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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 and contributed to a farm newspaper in Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

 (Sztandar Ludu). In 1965, he founded a poets association in 1965 called « Prom ». In 1969, he compiled Henryk Cybulski

Henryk Cybulski

Henryk Cybulski was born in 1910 in the village of Przebraze in Volhynia . He died in 1971.He worked as a forester, when in September 1939 the Red Army invaded Eastern Poland. Cybulski was forcibly deported by the Soviets to Siberia on February 10, 1940.In the summer of 1940 he managed to escape...

's memoirs, Czerwone noce (Red nights) about Przebraże Defence

Przebraze Defence

The Przebraże Defence was the World War II defence of Przebraże, a Polish settlement, located in Lutsk county, Volhynian Voivodeship, near the village of Troscianiec. Between 1919 and 1939, the settlement belonged to the Second Polish Republic; it exists no more.-Location:The Przebraże settlement...

, the self-defence of Poles against the Ukrainian UPA. Pająk wrote then a novel based on this subject matter, Los (Fate) in 1969.

A prolific writer, Henryk Pająk wrote many novels and poems which made him famous such as Druga śmierć (Second death) in 1971, Tam, za snem (There, for sleep) in 1991 (received 2 literary awards) or Wolny (Free) in 1992. He also headed the Lublin's section of the Polish union of writers (Związek Literatów Polskich). Under the communist regime

People's Republic of Poland

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, he was a member of the PZPR

Polish United Workers' Party

The Polish United Workers' Party was the Communist party which governed the People's Republic of Poland from 1948 to 1989. Ideologically it was based on the theories of Marxism-Leninism.- The Party's Program and Goals :...

 but left it during the Martial law

Martial law in Poland

Martial law in Poland refers to the period of time from December 13, 1981 to July 22, 1983, when the authoritarian government of the People's Republic of Poland drastically restricted normal life by introducing martial law in an attempt to crush political opposition to it. Thousands of opposition...

 in 1981.

After the collapse of communism, he created a book publishing company « Wydawnictwo Retro ». Since, he has written many books, such as a book about the Polish communist regime in 1997 (Rządy zbirów 1940-1990 [Governments of criminals]), written with Stanisław Żochowski (one of the NSZ confunders), or a biography of Józef Piłsudski (Ponura prawda o Piłsudskim [Gloomy truth about Piłsudski], in 2005). He also wrote a well-documented inquiry on the former communist secret police — the UB

Ministry of Public Security of Poland

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-SB — in 3 volumes (1993-94). Following the publication of this book, he was called to testify for the new intelligence agency UOP

Urzad Ochrony Panstwa

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Works

Los, 1969 (Fate) Druga śmierć, 1971 (Second death) Pęknięty świat, 1972 (Broken world) Zerwanie, 1976 Posłuchaj Moniko, 1977 (Listen Monika) Druga śmierć, 1981 (Second death) Za cieniem cień, 1989 (Shadow after shadow) Tam, za snem, 1991 (There, behind the dream) Wolny, 1992 (Free) Zbrodnie UB – NKWD, 1991 (Crimes of UB - NKVD) „Uskok” kontra UB, 1992 („Uskok” versus UB) „Burta” kontra UB, 1992 („Burta” versus UB) „Jastrząb” kontra UB, 1993 („Jastrząb” versus UB) „Żelazny” kontra UB, 1993 („Żelazny” versus UB) Za samostijną Ukrainę, 1993 (For free Ukraine) Urbana NIE w wojnie z Kościołem katolickim, 1993 (Urban Jerzy Urban Jerzy Urban , also known as: Jerzy Kibic, Jan Rem, Klakson born Jerzy Urbach, is a Jewish-Polish journalist, commentator, writer and politician, editor-in-chief of the weekly Nie and owner of the company which owns it, Urma.-Before 1989:Urban was born in Jewish family in Łódź. His father was an... 's NIE NIE (weekly magazine) NIE is a Polish weekly magazine published in Warsaw since 1990. Its political line is left. The newspaper is known to be very critical of right wing and religion, especially Catholicism. It publishes lot of satirical texts, containing very vulgar vocabulary. The editor-in-chief and owner of NIE is...  at war with Catholic Church) Oni się nigdy nie poddali, 1997 (They never gave up) Strach być Polakiem, 1997 (Fear to be Polish) Rządy zbirów 1940-1990, 1997 with Stanisław Żochowski, (Rule of thugs 1940-1990) Piąty rozbiór Polski 1990–2000, 1998 (V partition of Poland 1990-2000) Żydowskie oblężenie Oświęcimia, 1999 (Jewish siege of Auschwitz)

Dwa wieki polskiej Golgoty czyli Samotni wśród łotrów, 1999 (Two centuries of Polish Calvary, Alone among scumbags) A Naród śpi!, 2000 (And Nation sleeps!) Polska w bagnie, 2001 (Poland in swamp) Jedwabne geszefty, 2001 (Jedwabne's geszefts) Bestie końca czasu, 2001 (Beasts of the end of time) Trzecia wojna światowa, 2002 (World War Third) Złodziej milionów, 2002. (Thief of millions) Bandytyzm NATO, 2003 (NATO's banditism) Z Łagru do Eurołagru, 2003 (From gulag to Eurogulag) Niemieckie ludobójstwo na polskim narodzie, 2004 (German genocide on Polish nation) Retinger. Mason i agent syjonizmu, 2004 (Retinger. Freemason and agent of Zionism) Bestie końca czasu, 2005 (Beasts of the end of time) Ponura prawda o Piłsudskim, 2005 (Gloomy truth about Piłsudski) Dwa wieki polskiej Golgoty czyli Samotni wśród łotrów, 2005 (Two centuries of Polish Calvary, Alone among scumbags) Jedwabne geszefty, 2005 (Jedwabne's geszefts) Nowotwory Watykanu, 2005 (Vatican's tumors) Dyktatura nietykalnych, 2006 (Dictatorship of untouchables) Grabarze polskiej nadziei 1980–2005, 2007 (Gravediggers of Polish hope) Rosja we krwi i nafcie 1905–2005, 2007 (Russia in blood and oil) Prosto w ślepia, 2007 (Straight in eyes) Kundlizm znów wygrał, 2008 (Kundlizm won again)

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