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  Polish Bibliographies for Victims of War
The work is based on the secret dossier of the Interior Ministry from 1984, regarding 2157 persons sentenced for spying in Poland in the years 1944-1984.
The classification of "spy" was applied extremely broadly in those years, to any person who: passed to the free world any information on the communist system of terror or its structure and employees, on the military industry or economy in general.
Not included in the list are the victims of the secret prisons and torture chambers of the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa and NKVD.
www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/Biography/Polishbio/polvictims.htm   (6895 words)

  
 Urzad Ochrony Panstwa - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Urzad Ochrony Panstwa (UOP) (Office for State Protection) was the Polish intelligence agency.
The UOP replaced the communist-era Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (SB), whose responsibilities had additionally included the suppression of opposition to the government prior to 1989.
In June 2002, the agency was split into two separate entities - Agencja Bezpieczenstwa Wewnetrznego (Internal Security Agency), which deals with internal security of the country (an FBI-like role), and Agencja Wywiadu (Intelligence Agency), which deals with foreign intelligence.
open-encyclopedia.com /UOP   (137 words)

  
 No "Zero Option" But A Shake :: The Reform of the Polish Secret Services :: (by David M. Dastych) - Media Monitors ...
The UOP replaced the communist-era Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (SB) (Security Service),founded in 1956, whose responsibilities had additionally included the suppression of the democratic opposition to the communist government, prior to 1989.
The powers of the Internal Security Agency (Agencja Bezpieczenstwa Wewnetrznego, ABW), formed mainly on the base of the former UOP, should embrace the counter-intelligence, the constitutional state protection, the fight against the corruption in the state administration and against the organized crime.
SB: Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa, a former communist home security and counter-intelligence service and a secret political police, founded in 1956 and dissolved in 1990, after the change of the regime in Poland.
www.mediamonitors.net /davidmdastych2.html   (2822 words)

  
 No "Zero Option But a Shake Up: The Reform of the Polish Secret Services
Urzad Ochrony Panstwa (UOP) (Office for State Protection) was founded on April 6, 1990 as a department of the Ministry of the Interior.
The UOP replaced the communist-era Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (SB) (Security Service), founded in 1956, whose responsibilities had additionally included the suppression of the democratic opposition to the communist government, prior to 1989.
SB: Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa, a former communist home security & counter-intelligence service and a secret political police, founded in 1956 and dissolved in 1990, after the change of the regime in Poland.
www.fas.org /irp/world/poland/dastych.html   (2748 words)

  
 The world's top sluzba bezpieczenstwa websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (SB) was, under the communists, the name of the Polish intelligence agency and security police.
It was created in 1956 to replace the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa.
It was responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, state security and suppression of political opposition (notably the Solidarity movement, the leader of which, Lech Walesa was surveyed by the SB) until its replacement by the Urzad Ochrony Panstwa in 1990 after the fall of communism.
dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/sluzba_bezpieczenstwa   (145 words)

  
 All about "OPERATION WISLA"
Swierczewski in the context of adopting the decision on "Operation Wisla", rather they connect it with the successful elections and the amnesty procedure.
As far as the decision of the PKB (Panstwowy Komitet Bezpieczenstwa) or the Government Security Committee of April 17, 1947 was concerned, then it doubtlessly was not an adoption of a plan or project, but it was the final order which put the whole machine into motion.
The UBP - Urzad Bezpieczenstwa Publicznego (The Office of Public Satety).
www.lemko.org /lih/olszansk.html   (4908 words)

  
 The Guardians of Europe: Polish secret service protects the borders of the European Union
In 1944, one year prior to the end of the war, the Polish Committee of National Liberation (Polski Komitet Wyzvolenia Narodowego) was created in Moscow.
The Administrative Department of Security (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa - UB) was a part of the structure of the new ministry, dealing with both intelligence and counterespionage activities.
Accordingly, the name of Administrative Department of Security (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa - UB) was changed and, till the collapse of the Communist regime, it was called simply, Security Service (Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa - SB).
www.axisglobe.com /polish108.htm   (1046 words)

  
 Post-War Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1949 the Vatican had issued a decree against Communism which had put all Communist publications on the Index and forbade Catholics to cooperate with Communists, now, in 1952, the first arrests of bishops and priests began, culminating in the arrest of Cardinal Wyszynski (1954).
1905), deputy chief of the Tenth Department (set up to monitor the activities of Party members and the government on behalf of Moscow), defected and began to broadcast on Radio Free Europe, revealing the activities of the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa (UB; Polish security services).
The scandal that followed these revelations, of the extent to which Moscow had control over everyday life, led to the dismissal of the head of the UB and the release of Gomulka from prison.
www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk /www/PostWarBios.html   (4656 words)

  
 Danuta SOCHA - "Rad", "Zakopianska"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Danuta Socha was born on August 17, 1927 in Rzemien, Mielec district, to a family of an estates' tenant and an ex-legionary.
The communists, supported by their Soviet adherent, intensified the fight with the patriotic Underground and Danuta was given an order to lay low.
On March 23, 1945 her brother Zbyszek - "Tur", died in a skirmish with the UB (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa - secret police to fight the enemies of the communist regime) near Tryncza.
www.electronicmuseum.ca /Poland-WW2/polish_veterans/veterans/socha/socha.html   (2213 words)

  
 0086 Lucjusz Wajszczuk
Clandestine meetings of the AK took place in his home.
During the period of intense persecutions by the UB (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa - communist "Security Office"), jail was also his fate.
The reason was a denunciation by one of the employees of the Ubezpieczalnia (Public Health Service facility, where he worked) that he allegedly had in his posession pictures from Katyn (where the Soviet Security forces shot several thousand of detained Polish Officers in the Spring of 1940).
www.wajszczuk.v.pl /english/drzewo/tekst/0086lucjusz.htm   (514 words)

  
 Ratajczak
Urzad Bezpieczenstwa Publicznego (Department for Public Security), the UBP, informally UB [oobe] (also derog.
A political police force, created in July 1944 by the Krajowa Rada Narodowa (Home National Council), a Soviet-controlled Communist organization, acting as the official representation of the Polish nation.
In December 1956, it was renamed Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (Security Service), the SB.
www.adelaideinstitute.org /Dissenters/ratajczak.htm   (6486 words)

  
 0364 BolesÅ‚aw Wajszczuk
Since 1949 - worked in the Builders' Technical (Trade) School in Gliwice and in 1959 - became Director of the Chemical Technical (Trade) School in Brzeg Dolny.
For political reasons - conflicts with the Public Security Office (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa Publicznego - state secret police organization) - was forced to resign his position and returned to Tarnow.
Subsequently, he was employed in the Chemical Technical School in Tarnow-Moscice and retired in 1962.
www.wajszczuk.v.pl /english/drzewo/tekst/0364boleslaw.htm   (582 words)

  
 ASDA bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sarah Rice is an actress whose career in theatre has spanned across many leading theatrical productions, such as Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music both by Stephen Sondheim.
Salomon Morel was between Feb 1945 and Nov 1945 the commander of the communist concentration camp in Swietochlowice, Silesia, Poland and member of infamous secrect police Urzad Bezpieczenstwa.
The goal of sadhana is to attain moksha, to calm the mind or to obtain grace from God.
www.elexi.de /en/a/as/asda.html   (348 words)

  
 Kielce - Part 3
It served to deprive the Jews of their cultural heritage in order to form a "progressive Jewish nation," to use Stalin's expression.
Checinski describes how Stalin ordered the NKVD to prepare a civilian network of police terror and repression, called the UB [Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), to work in parallel with the Informacja in Poland.
The "Polish intelligentsia boycotted the security service, which was treated with universal contempt as an instrument of foreign domination" (Checinski, p.
www.poloniatoday.com /kielce3.htm   (1883 words)

  
 Kielce pogrom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Kielce Pogrom have been a difficult subject in Polish history for many years, and there is still confusion over blame.
Allegations have made that this was a part of a much wider action organized by the KGB in countries controlled by the Soviet Union, and in the preparation of Kielce pogrom, soviet-dominated agencies like the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa were used.
In recent years, the Kielce Pogrom, the role of the Poles in the masscare, and the role of the Catholic Church in anti-semitism after the war, are more openly discussed.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/K/Kielce-pogrom.htm   (473 words)

  
 Chapter 15
The capitulation was handled by the German Army not by the SS.
Or UB; short for "Urzad Bezpieczenstwa" - Office of Internal Security, Polish equivalent of Russian KGB.
The two letter symbol was fast becoming more dreaded than the German SS.
www.citinet.net /ak/karlsbad/chapter15.html   (2181 words)

  
 Tajne oblicze GL-AL PPR Dokumenty: SR, April 2001
Indeed, one of the editors of the work under review, Marek J. Chodakiewicz, explains why the two were natural allies: the PPR-GL-AL needed more supporters, the Jews needed help to survive, and both looked forward to liberation by the USSR.
It is interesting to note that at the time of the infamous Kielce pogrom of 4 July 1946, which resulted in the loss of some forty Jewish lives, Iwanczyk was the Kielce governor while Sobczynski was the head of the Security Police in the Kielce Governorship (UB, or Urzad Bezpieczenstwa, TO 1, note 29, 24).
The reader may gain the impression that the documents on GL-AL slaughter of Jews in World War II are meant not only to destroy the "legend" of its support for them, but also to counterbalance the well known anti-Semitism of the NSZ and its political arm.
www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/401/212ciencia.html   (3086 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Poland
Urzad Zamówien Publicznych (UZP) [Office of Public Procurement]
Urzad Komitetu Integracji Europejskiej (UKIE) [Office of the Committee for European Integration]
Urzad Mieszkalnictwa i Rozwoju Miast (UMiRM) [Housing and Urban Development Office]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/pl.html   (923 words)

  
 Gazeta Wyborcza Article About Radzilow
After the war not only the few saved Jews feared for their life, but also those who had kept them in hiding.
"In the daytime one feared the UB [Urzad Bezpieczenstwa: Communist Secret Police], who came to arrest people for a true or alleged help to the Underground.
At night one was scared of the partisans" - tells us Edward Borawski from Trzaski, a son of the people in whose house Janek Skrodzki was hiding during the Soviet occupation.
www.radzilow.com /gazeta1.htm   (12613 words)

  
 CONTROVERSY Pointing Fingers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He and Lech Gluchowski have assessed the nationality of functionaries in the Urzad Bezpieczenstwo (UB), the political police in Stalinist Poland, making use of a confidential study prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1978.
According to this study, between 1944 and 1945, 287 individuals held leadership positions in the UB.
Everyone having any basic knowledge about post-war communist Poland should know, that there was something like UB - Urzad Bezpieczenstwa (in English - the Security Office, Service).
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1344715/posts   (9205 words)

  
 Behind 'An Eye for an Eye'
I once asked her, "Lola, where did you get that uniform?," and Lola said, "Well, the Russians must've given it to me." That wasn't the whole truth either.
Its name was the Office of State Security, in Polish the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa Publicznego.
One of its missions was to round up Nazi suspects.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v20/v20n1p-9_Sack.html   (6249 words)

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