Week in the Life: Konstanty Gebert, Journalist - Silk screen expert hel ps Poles and Jews heal ancient wounds

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 19, 1999| Author: Adam LeBor | Copyright information

WRITING UNDER the Jewish pen-name of "David Warszawski", Konstanty Gebert was one of the best known underground journalists during Poland's Communist dictatorship. A founder member of a free trade union in 1980, like the rest of the opposition, he spent years dodging secret police tails and flitting from safe house to safe house, while distributing hand- printed samizdat sheets.

Now 46 and editor of Midrasz, the Warsaw-based magazine of Poland's 10,000 strong Jewish community, he faces...

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