Władysław Bartoszewski dies at 93

Former Polish Foreign Minister and Auschwitz survivor, Władysław Bartoszewski passed away on Friday. He was one of the first to write a detailed report of what was really happening in Auschwitz after he was released from the camp in 1941. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising and saved many Jewish lives throughout World War II. He was imprisoned by the communist regime twice. First, after the end of WWII, on fabricated espionage charges and spent nearly seven years in prison before a court finally ruled in 1955 that he had been unfairly arrested. He also spent four months in jail during martial law for being involved with the opposition. Despite of what he witnessed during the war, he spent a large part of his life working for Polish-German reconciliation. After the fall of communism, he was Poland's ambassador to Austria, senator and Minister of Foreign Affairs twice. “This is a huge loss; a great Pole has left us,” President Bronisław Komorowski wrote on his twitter account.