Włodzimierz Brus
| Włodzimierz Brus | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Beniamin Zylberberg August 23, 1921 Plock, Second Polish Republic |
| Died |
August 31, 2007 (aged 86) Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Poland, United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Helena Wolińska-Brus |
| Institution |
University of Oxford Warsaw University |
| Field | Socialist economics |
| Alma mater |
Leningrad University John Casimir University |
| Influences | Joseph Stalin |
Włodzimierz Brus (Polish pronunciation: [vwoˌd͡ʑimiʂ ˈbrus]) (Born Beniamin Zylberberg, Płock, 23 August 1921 – 31 August 2007, Oxford) was an economist and party functionary in communist Poland. He emigrated from Poland in 1972, removed from power after the 1968 Polish political crisis. Brus spent the rest of his life in the United Kingdom.
Brus was born in 1921 into a Jewish family in Płock in the north of the Second Polish Republic. He began his studies there at Wolna Wszechnica. After the 1939 German and Soviet invasion of Poland he fled to the Soviet occupation zone and settled in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) a Polish city conquered by the Red Army. He continued his studies at John Casimir University (now Lviv University) and later at the Leningrad University in the Soviet Union. He then fled to Saratov, where he was a Comintern teacher and also worked in a factory.
Towards the end of the war, Brus returned to Poland with the Soviet controlled Polish First Army, only to find that his parents and sister had been killed in the Treblinka concentration camp. He ran into his young Jewish wife Fajga (now Helena Wolińska), who he thought also died in the Holocaust. but she was by then married to a commander of Gwardia Ludowa and first commandant of the communist state police Milicja Obywatelska, a deputy minister of stalininst Secret Police (1945–1949).
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