Zygmunt Witalis Zaremba (b. 1895 in Piotrków

Piotrków

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, Poland

Poland

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 – d. October 5, 1967 in Sceaux

Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine

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 near Paris

Paris

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, France

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), pseudonyms Andrzej Czarski (Czerski), Wit Smrek, was Polish socialist activist and publicist.

Biography

Zaremba was member of the Youth Association for Progress and Independence (Związek Młodzieży Postępowo-Niepodległościowej; 1911), Polish Socialist Party - Opposition (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna - Opozycja; 1912–1914), then member of the Polish Socialist Party

Polish Socialist Party

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 (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna) and its Central Executive Committee (Centralny Komitet Wykonawczy; 1917–1918).

Since 1918 he stayed in Poland. Then, he was member of Polish Socialist Party authorities – Supreme Council (Rada Naczelna; 1919–1939) and Central Executive Committee (1921–1924, 1926–1939). During the years of 1921–1924 he was a vice-president of its Supreme Council.

In the years of 1922–1935 Zaremba was a deputy of a Sejm

Sejm

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. During the Invasion of Poland (1939)

Invasion of Poland (1939)

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 he organised the Robotnicza Brygada Obrony Warszawy. Zaremba was a co-founder of conspiratory Polish Socialist Party - Freedom-Equality-Independence (PPS - Wolność-Równość-Niepodległość) and its administration member. In the years of 1944–1945 representative of the Council of National Unity

Council of National Unity

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 (Rada Jedności Narodowej). In 1946 he moved to Paris, where he became a president of the Central Committee (Rada Centralna) of the Polish Socialist Party. In 1949 he co-founded Political Council (Rada Polityczna) in London. He was a president and co-founder of the International Socialist Office and then, until 1964, president of the Central-East Socialist Europe Union.

Zaremba was a co-author of Program Polski Ludowej (1941). He was an editor of party-press Robotnik

Robotnik (1894–1939)

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, Pobudka, Związkowiec. Also an editor of Światło (1947–1959) and Droga (1959–1960).

External links

• Zygmunt Zaremba at WorldCat
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