Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

[1] After the war he worked as the head of the Polish section of Radio Free Europe, and later as a security advisor to the US presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.

[2] He was born Zdzisław Antoni Jeziorański, (Jeziora Coat of Arms) in Berlin, but used a number of noms de guerre during the war, the best known of which was Jan Nowak which he later added to his original surname.

During his first trips to Sweden and Great Britain he informed the Western governments of the fate of Poland under German and Soviet occupation.

Shortly before the capitulation of the Polish capital, he was ordered by Home Army's commander-in-chief Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski to leave the city and find his way to London.

He was also working as an advisor to the American National Security Agency and the presidents of the USA Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.

[7] In the 1990s he started his cooperation with the Polish Radio and wrote a series of broadcasts titled Polska z oddali (Poland from a Distance).

In 2003 he was also awarded the Człowiek Pojednania prize by the Polish Council of Christians and Jews for his part in the Polish-Jewish dialogue.

[11] Among other books, he wrote: A dramatic feature film about the wartime experiences of Nowak-Jeziorański and the Warsaw Uprising, entitled Kurier [pl] (The Messenger; U.S. title: The Resistance Fighter), was released in Poland in 2019 and in the United States in 2020.