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Immigrant sees change in Poland
2005/11/14
Original Article Date: 2005/11/13
Woman returns to freer atmosphere in accepting honor for late husband.
By Melissa DeLoach
News-Leader
Anna Jedrzejewski expressed her opinion openly in her home country of Poland during a visit last year, and for the first time, she wasn't afraid.
She wrote an e-mail to a journalist to express her anger about an interview she had with a prominent Polish leader who Jedrzejewski said was rude and arrogant.
"I was outraged," Jedrzejewski recalled of the political leader's attitude in the interview. "It was hard to believe."
Jedrzejewski said that not too long ago expressing opinions openly in Poland meant imprisonment. The Jedrzejewskis, who settled in Springfield in 1982 from Radom, Poland, lived through those hard times.
Zbigniew Jedrzejewski, the patriarch of the family, was a spokesman of the Solidarity independence movement and was imprisoned for two months under allegations he organized a strike against the communist-controlled Polish government. However, in fact he advocated unions workers to go to work.
Though he died in 2001 at age 57 from a heart attack, Zbigniew Jedrzejewski's efforts to bring down communism were not forgotten. His family was honored by the Polish government during a ceremony last month in remembrance of 25 years of the Solidarity Union. Jedrzejewski accepted a medal on behalf of her husband during the celebration Oct. 11 in Radom that paid recognition to solidarity activists.
She said she was shocked when she learned of the honor, just two weeks before the ceremony was set to take place. She hadn't kept close contact with members of the Solidarity movement since before her husband's death.
"He loved people," Jedrzejewski said of her husband. "He was a man of truth and he didn't want to see the situation get any worse. He couldn't quit."
Once he was set free, the family began efforts to leave Poland, not out of fear, but for a better life for their four children — daughters Agnieszka and Klara and sons Stan and Nikodem. All but the boys still live in Springfield.
They didn't have much when they arrived — they sold everything they had to get here — and they didn't speak English, but the family learned to adapt, taking odd jobs from washing dishes to selling concessions.
Later in life, Zbigniew Jedrzejewski succeeded as a car salesman.
Before his death, the couple returned in 1991 to Radom and Zbigniew Jedrzejewski, formerly a journalist for a Catholic newspaper before he fled with his family, was offered employment to return. He turned down an offer by a friend, who was also imprisoned.
Anna Jedrzejewski said she had plans to write a book documenting her family's plight one day.
She bought a scanner and plans to begin copying the many documents her husband kept during the political unrest.
Her husband bought a typewriter when they first arrived in Springfield, but plans to publish years of journal entries never came to fruition before his death. The family has donated a portion of its files to the Hoover Institute at Stanford University.
"It was part of his life," Jedrzejewski said. "I believe 101 percent of it was truthful, and I want to give a piece of history back to the people."
She especially wants to ensure that young people don't forget about the costs it took for those who fought for freedom and democracy.
"We didn't become rich and we don't have a lot, but that was our life adventure."
Source: news-leader.com,
Immigrant sees change in Poland
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