Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski & Gabriel Janowski
in Cape Town
Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski,
was a Polish politician and lawyer; from 1991 to 1993 he was Sejm Marshal. He was a recipient of the Order of the White Eagle.
Chrzanowski was born and died in Warsaw, Poland. During World War II he was a member of the Polish anti-Nazi resistance organization, the Home Army. He finished a law degree at a secret underground university in 1945.During the second half of the 1970s he became associated with the opposition to the communist government in Poland. He helped to draft the statutes establishing the Solidarity trade union and later was the lawyer which guided the legal registration process of the organization. In 1989 he founded the Christian National Union (ZChN), party he chaired to 1994.
Gabriel Janowski (born 22 April 1947 in Konstantów) – Polish politician, activist of opposition in People's Republic of Poland, senator of the first term of office of Senate of the Republic of Poland, MP of first, third and fourth term of office of Sejm, from 1991 do 1993 the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Gabriel Lisowski, uczestnik walk pod Monte Casino, & Luda Jakutowicz.
Photo. Barbara Chodacki, Polish community, Bloubergstrand Cape Town 1992.