A Polish courier who connected resistance, exile, and radio
On 29 July 1944, he told Home Army leaders that substantial Western support was impossible, but the decision to rise did not change.
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański was a courier and journalist who linked the Polish Home Army with the government-in-exile in London. Returning from London in July 1944, he warned Home Army leaders that Western support for an uprising would be limited, but he could not stop the decision to rise, and he broadcast during the Warsaw Uprising. After the war he directed the Polish Service of Radio Free Europe, making exile broadcasting a sustained instrument of political communication. He returned to Poland in 1989 and continued to advocate its integration with the West.
Career Timeline
- 1936Assistant in economics at the University of Poznań
- 1941–1943Worked in the Home Army's intelligence and propaganda networks
- 1943–1944Courier between the Home Army and the government-in-exile in London
- 1944.07–10Announcer and editor for Radio Lightning during the Warsaw Uprising
- 1948–1951Editor with the BBC Polish Service
- 1951–1976Founding director of the Polish Service of Radio Free Europe
- 1979–1996National director of the Polish American Congress
- 1989–2005Public advocate of Poland's integration with the West after returning home