Jerzy Borejsza

Jerzy Borejsza
Born	1905 Warsaw, Russian Empire
Died	1952 Warsaw, Poland
Other names	Beniamin Goldberg
Citizenship	Polish
Occupation	Head of the communist press
Known for	Co-founder of Union of Polish Patriots

Jerzy Borejsza (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ bɔˈrɛjʂa]; born Beniamin Goldberg; 1905 in Warsaw – 1952 in Warsaw), was a Polish communist activist and writer, chief of the communist press and publishing syndicate in the Stalinist period of the People's Republic of Poland.

Borejsza was born as Beniamin Goldberg to a Polish Jewish family. He was an older brother of Józef Różański – later a member of Soviet NKVD and high-ranking interrogator in the Polish communist Ministry of Public Security. As a youth, Borejsza sympathized with the Zionist radical left and anarchic political factions. After he got in trouble with the Polish authorities, his father sponsored his residence in France. Borejsza studied engineering, then Hispanic culture at the Sorbonne, and remained deeply involved with the politics and activism of anarchism.

After his studies, Borejsza returned home and was briefly enlisted in the Polish Army in the late 1920s. In 1929 he joined the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) active in the Second Polish Republic, and was imprisoned several times in the years 1933–1935 for agitation and political propaganda.

After Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Borejsza became a vocal supporter of the new communist regime, publishing Polish language translations of Soviet propaganda. He served as director of the Ossolineum Institute in Lwów (Lviv) in 1939–1940. After the war, he aided the transport of most of Ossolineum archives to Wrocław, following the transfer of the Polish city of Lwów to the Ukrainian SSR. He was one of the founders of the Union of Polish Patriots – precursor to the puppet government of future People's Republic of Poland. Borejsza served in the Red Army, and then the Polish First Army, reaching the rank of major.

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