Andrzej Czuma

Who is Andrzej Czuma?

Andrzej Czuma is a Polish politician, lawyer and historian, an activist of the Polish anti-Communist opposition in the Polish People's Republic. Oppressed and imprisoned by the Communist authorities. In the 1980s he left for the USA where he became an activist in the community of Polish expats. Since 2006 Czuma has been a member of the Polish Parliament. Elected twice, a representative of Civic Platform political party.

He studied law at Warsaw University. He was one of the founders of Ruch - an anti-Communist organisation aiming at making Poland a democratic country. Imprisoned by the Communist authorities. In June 1970 sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment for "an attempt to overthrow the Communist government by force". A spokesperson for and one of the leaders of the Movement for Defense of Human and Civic Rights as well as an editor of Opinia magazine. Sentenced to 3 months' imprisonment in March 1980 for organising a celebration of Independence Day in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw on 11 November 1979. After the nationwide anti-Communist protests in August 1980 he became an advisor to the Solidarity movement in Silesia region as well as the publisher and editor of Wiadomości Katowickie magazine. Imprisoned from 12 December 1981 to 23 December 1982 in internment camps in Białołęka, Jaworze and Darłówko.