Henryk Wujec (25 December 1940 – 15 August 2020) was a Polish politician who served as a member of the Sejm. Wujec was born in Podlesie, Biłgoraj County. As a child, he was interned at

Majdanek concentration camp Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It had seven gas chambers, two wooden gallows, a ...

. He graduated from Warsaw University with a degree in Physics and went on to study electron technology as a postgraduate in 1970. A physicist by profession, Wujec was an activist in the

Solidarity ''Solidarity'' is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It is based on class collaboration.''Merriam Webster'', http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio ...

movement of the 1980s. In 1984, he was imprisoned at Białołęka for his political activities. Wujec was Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the government of

Jerzy Buzek Jerzy Karol Buzek (born 3 July 1940) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament from Poland. He has served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001, since being elected to the European Parliament in 2004, he served as Pre ...

in 1999-2000. He acted as an advisor to Bronisław Komorowski when the latter became President of Poland in 2010. He died at the age of 79 on 15 August 2020 after a long illness. He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery and posthumously awarded Poland's highest order, the Order of the White Eagle.

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