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Jakub Wajda (ur. 27 lipca 1900 w Szarowie, zm. w kwietniu 1940 w Charkowie) – kapitan piechoty Wojska Polskiego, kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari, ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej.
Jul 22, 2009 · One of the officers murdered that day was Jakub Wajda, whose son Andrzej would become a leading Polish film director, and one of the chroniclers of the Solidarity movement. Now 82, Andrzej has evoked what happened that day and how it infected Polish society for 50 years.
Wajda was born in Suwałki, [10] the son of Aniela (née Białowąs), a school teacher, and Jakub Wajda, an army officer. [11] In 1942, he joined the Polish resistance and served in the Home Army.
Feb 22, 2009 · Wajda has exorcised feelings that may have burdened him since he was a teen-ager: his own father, Jakub Wajda, a decorated fighter in the First World War, was among the officers killed.
Apr 25, 2005 · Among those killed was Jakub Wajda, Andrzej Wajda’s father, a captain in the 72nd Infantry Regiment. (Until the collapse of Communism in Poland and the Soviet Union, the official line held that this hideous act was perpetrated by the Germans.)
Between surviving the horrors of WWII (which saw his cavalry-officer father Jakub murdered by Stalin’s forces in the Katyń forest when Wajda was just 13) and enrolling at the then-new Łódź Film School in 1949, Wajda trained at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts (1946-48), intending to become a painter – an experience that threads its way ...
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Oct 11, 2016 · One of the victims of this tragedy was Wajda’s father, Jakub Wajda, an army officer. The artist’s last film, Afterimage, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, only a week before Wadja’s own passing.
