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Letter to Marek Edelman

This is a letter from Lech Walesa to Marek Edelman dated April 17, 1988. When Poland first offered to recognize Solidarity as the official state union, one of their conditions was that they expel Marek Edelman from its Exec. Committee. Lech Walesa refused and instead wrote this letter to Marek on Passover 1988, the 45th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
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October 7, 2009

This is a letter from Lech Walesa to Marek Edelman dated April 17, 1988.  When Poland first offered to recognize Solidarity as the official state union, one of their conditions was that they expel Marek Edelman from its Exec. Committee.  Lech Walesa refused and instead wrote this letter to Marek on Passover 1988, the 45th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

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