Józef Cyrankiewicz
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Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland 2nd Prime Minister of Communist Poland |
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In office February 6, 1947 – November 20, 1952 |
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| President | Bolesław Bierut |
| Preceded by | Edward Osóbka-Morawski |
| Succeeded by | Bolesław Bierut |
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Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland 4th Premier of Communist Poland, 2nd Premier under People's Constitution |
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In office March 18, 1954 – December 23, 1970 |
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| Preceded by | Bolesław Bierut |
| Succeeded by | Piotr Jaroszewicz |
| 4th Chairman of the Council of State of the People's Republic of Poland | |
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In office December 23, 1970 – March 28, 1972 |
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| Preceded by | Marian Spychalski |
| Succeeded by | Henryk Jabłoński |
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| Born | 23 April 1911 Tarnów, Austro-Hungary (now Poland) |
| Died | 20 January 1989 (aged 77) |
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PPS (1930s-1948) PZPR (1948-1989) |
Józef Cyrankiewicz [ˈjuzɛf t͡sɨranˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ] (April 23, 1911 – January 20, 1989) was a Polish Socialist and after 1948 Communist politician. He served as premier of the People's Republic of Poland between 1947 and 1952, and again for 16 years between 1954 and 1970. He also served as Chairman of the Polish Council of State from 1970 to 1972.
Born in Tarnów in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Cyrankiewicz attended Kraków's Jagiellonian University. He became the secretary of the local branch of the Polish Socialist Party in 1935.
Active in the Union of Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej, later renamed to Armia Krajowa), the Polish resistance organization, from the beginning of Poland's 1939 defeat at the start of World War II, Cyrankiewicz was captured by the Gestapo in the spring of 1941 and after imprisonment at Montelupich was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He arrived on September 4, 1942, and received registration number 62,933.
While there, Communist propaganda claims he attempted to organize a resistance movement among the other imprisoned socialists and also worked on bringing the various international prisoners' groups together. This organization then, apparently, struggled to alert the outside world about what was happening in the camp. Others claim he collaborated with the Gestapo and sold stolen Jewish possessions. He, along with other Auschwitz prisoners, was eventually transferred to Mauthausen as the Soviet front line approached Auschwitz late in the war. He was eventually liberated by the US Army.
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