Leopold Unger (12 August 1922 – 20 December 2011
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Unger was born in Lwów, Poland
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(now Lviv, Ukraine). Nicknamed ''Brukselczyk'' and ''Pol Mathil'', during World War II
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, he sought refuge in Romania. He began his career in 1948 in Bucharest as correspondent for the Polish Press Agency
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. After the war, he worked in Warsaw for the daily newspaper, ''Życie Warszawy''. In 1967, he was laid off for political reasons, then forced to leave Poland in 1969 in the wake of the a 1968 anti-Semitic campaign launched by the communist authorities.
Unger lived in Brussels
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from 1969, and wrote for the Brussels daily, ''Le Soir'', as columnist, specialising in international affairs, mainly in the ex-USSR and Eastern Europe. He was formerly a fellow at th
Wilson Center for International Scholars
in Washington D.C.
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Between 1974 and 1982, he was a columnist for the ''International Herald Tribune'' in Paris, a regular commentator for the Polish Section of Radio Free Europe
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and, temporarily, for the Polish Section of the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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Unger published a monthly essay in ''Kultura'' (Paris), edited by
, a major Polish émigré democratic opposition forum. Since 1990, he has been writing a regular column for the Warsaw daily
. He died in
, aged 89. He was buried on December 23, 2011 in the Jewish part of the municipal cemetery in