Bronisław Wildstein

Bronisław Wildstein (born June 11, 1952 in Olsztyn, Poland) is a former Polish dissident, a journalist, freelance author and, from May 11, 2006 to February 28, 2007, he was the CEO of Telewizja Polska, state-owned television. Wildstein rose to nationwide prominence in Poland in January and February 2005, after he had smuggled a file of informers and victims of the former communist secret police (Służba Bezpieczeństwa) out of the Institute for National Remembrance (IPN) and then distributed it among fellow journalists. The file is commonly referred to as "Wildstein's List" (Polish: lista Wildsteina).

Bronisław Wildstein was born in Olsztyn. His father Szymon Wildstein was a Jewish military doctor and communist in the Second Republic of Poland. His mother Genowefa Wildstein was peasant, anti-communist and member of the Armia Krajowa (the underground home army acting under the German and Soviet occupation during the II World War).

When he was five years old, he got tuberculosis, so his family moved to Przemyśl for the better environment.

From 1971 through 1980, Wildstein studied Polish literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In the 1970s, he joined the oppositional Komitet Obrony Robotnikow|KOR (), an influential highbrow forerunner to the Solidarity (est. 1980), and in 1977 co-founded the Student Committee of Solidarity (Studencki Komitet Solidarności). From 1980, he lived in France, where he worked as a journalist for the Polish monthly Kontakt and Radio Free Europe.

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