Anna Julia Komorowska (née Dziadzia, born 11 May 1953) is a

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and former

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, as the wife of 5th

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Bronisław Komorowski Bronisław Maria Komorowski (; born 4 June 1952) is a Polish politician and historian who served as President of Poland from 2010 to 2015. Komorowski served as Minister of Defence from 2000 to 2001. As Marshal of the Sejm, Komorowski exercised ...

Early life and education

She was born to Jan Dziadzia and Józefa Deptuła (born as Hana Rojer). Both of her parents worked for the

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

Ministry of Public Security in post-war

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. Her maternal grandparents Wolf and Estera Rojer were killed in the

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. The family later changed their name to "Dembowski". Anna Dembowska studied at the , and went on to read

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''Anna Komorowska. Harcerka'', gazeta.pl
Retrieved 7 July 2010 at the

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, graduating in 1977 with a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

Career

Komorowska was a

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teacher at a

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. She met

in 1970, when she was a member of the

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. They married in 1977. They have five children: Zofia (born 1979), Tadeusz (born 1981), Maria (born 1983), Piotr (born 1986) and Elżbieta (born 1989). After the introduction of martial law in Poland, her husband was

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. On 31 December 1981, she reached his internment camp as one of the first three women ever to do so. After the

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in Poland, she worked for an insurance company for five years.

Honours

Foreign honours

* : Grand Officer of the

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(October 2012, Monaco)Sovereign Ordonnanc
n° 3990
of 17 October 2012 (''French'') * : Commander with the Great Cross Order of the Northern Star (4 May 2011)

References

1953 births Living people First Ladies of Poland Grand Officers of the Order of Saint-Charles Polish people of Jewish descent Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class Latin-language education Polish schoolteachers Language teachers University of Warsaw alumni {{Poland-bio-stub