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The name Jerzy means "form of GEORGE - farmer" and is of Polish origin.
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Jerzy Tomaszewski (photographer)
Jerzy Tomaszewski (1924 – 26 January 2016), nom de guerre Jur, was a Polish World War II photographer, artist, and reporter, awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Lech Kaczyński.
Tomaszewski is best known for the roughly 1,000 photographs of the Warsaw Uprising which he took in 1944. He was assigned by the Polish underground Bureau of Information and Propaganda (BIP) to document the battle. He photographed in the districts of Powiśle, Śródmieście and Wola, until he was wounded on 6 September 1944. The last photo he took was of the several bodies lying in the street of the Old Town, without signs of life.
Source: Jerzy Tomaszewski (photographer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJerzy Tomaszewski (historian)
Jerzy Tomaszewski (October 8, 1930 – November 3, 2014) was a Polish political scientist and historian, born in Radomsko. He graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics and worked there, later moving on to the Warsaw University of Life Science, and finally to Warsaw University. He specialized in the economic history of Poland and the Polish-Jewish history and relations. He authored many books together with his colleague from the Warsaw School of Economics, Zbigniew Landau.
Since 1990, Tomaszewski has been employed in the Department of History at Warsaw University, where he worked on history of Jews in Poland.
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