Jerzy Holzer

Jerzy Stanisław Holzer (24 August 1930, Warsaw - 14 January 2015) was a Polish historian.

Since 1978 he cooperated with the Workers' Defence Committee and helped to publish several illegal magazines.

In 1980-1981 Holzer helped to organize the Solidarity movement at the University of Warsaw.

Holzer died on 14 January 2015 and was buried at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

[2] Six days later, President of Poland Bronisław Komorowski awarded him the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.