Zbigniew Stypułkowski

Zbigniew Stypułkowski (March 26, 1904 in Warsaw - March 30, 1979 in London) was a Polish politician and lawyer. He was a Member of the Council of National Unity. He was sentenced by the Soviets in the infamous Trial of the Sixteen in 1945.

Biography

In 1944 he took part in the Warsaw Uprising. In March 1945 he was arrested by the NKVD and brought to Moscow. After 3 months of interrogations, he was sentenced to 4 months in prison in a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow. In August he came back to Poland. Fearing arrest he escaped from Poland in November 1945. The arrest, imprisonment, and trial of Polish leaders is described in his 1951 book Invitation to Moscow. The book was soon translated to French (Invitation à Moscu), Italian (Invito a Mosca), Portuguese (Convite de Moscobo), Spanish (Invitation a Moscou), Burmese and Arabic. In Polish language the book was published outside Poland in 1951 (W zwierusze dziejowej). In 1991 the book was published in Warsaw. Hugh Trevor-Roper, a professor at the University of Oxford wrote that the book is "of unique value" and that "there is no other evidence known to me from which we can learn, as here, the psychology and method behind these Communist trials".^[1]

Selected bibliography

Works available in English

• Invitation to Moscow (London 1951), with a preface by Hugh Trevor-Roper

Cultural Depictions

The film, I Am Not Alone, depicts Stypułkowski's story during his incarceration at the Lubyanka prison.

References

External Links

(English) at the Internet Archive