Zygmunt Milczewski

Zygmunt Milczewski (1 October 1905 – 2 June 2001) was a Polish historian associated with Pomerania, a community leader in the Second Polish Republic, and World War II resistance fighter in the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa) with the postwar rank of Lieutenant (porucznik). During the darkest years of Stalinism in Poland he spent three years in prison from 1949 to 1952 as a so-called enemy of the state along with thousands of other political prisoners persecuted by the communist Urząd Bezpieczeństwa.

Life and work Milczewski was born in Strzepcz near Wejherowo. He graduated from the Warsaw University in the field of economics and took up a post of secretary to mayor (wójt) of a rural community of Rumia-Zagórze in the interwar Poland; credited with helping the town grow quicker. After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Milczewski relocated to Kraków in the southern part of occupied Poland and joined the anti-Nazi underground, nom de guerre Wąsowicz.

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