Maria Teresa Korzonkiewicz-Kiszczak, wife of Czesław Kiszczak, long-time head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, co-founder of martial law, has passed away. Her daughter, Ewa, informed PAP about Maria Kiszczak’s death on Monday.
Maria Kiszczak was born on August 20, 1934 in the village of Kozy near Bielsko-Biała. Her mother was a housewife, her father a tailor. In an interview with the river “Kiszczakowa. Secrets of the General’s Kamila Szewczyk, she recalled that she met her future husband by chance on a train. Czesław Kiszczak was then a military counterintelligence officer. The wedding was only civil, although after birth Maria of Ewa’s daughter, secretly from her husband.
Marriage, as she recalled in an interview River, was turbulent, especially the husband did not like it when the wife talked about political topics. The work of Kiszczak, who climbed the successive career ladder (Head of the WSW of the Navy, Chief of Military Intelligence, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Chief of the Military Internal Service, Minister of the Interior from 1981, close associate of General Jaruzelski, premiered in 1989 for three weeks), forced frequent moves – they lived m. in Gdynia, Wrocław and Warsaw. She worked as an economics teacher in successive schools. The Kiszczaks enjoyed the privileges of the system – cars, corporate apartments, skip-the-line shopping in special shops for VIPs. Kiszczakowa was very sociable, she loved visiting communist parlors and traveling.
Maria Kiszczakowa was a master of economics by training. After graduating, she worked as a teacher and methodologist in economics at secondary vocational schools. In 1985 she obtained her doctorate with the thesis “Institutional conditions for self-study of economics teachers”. In the 1980s he was a university lecturer at the Teachers’ Training College. After the political breakthrough and the establishment of private universities, she taught marketing at the School of Banking and Finance in Bielsko-Biała until 2006. She was the author of scientific publications and educational resources, as well as fiction novels and poems. She published two autobiographical books “General Kiszczak’s Wife Speaks” and “Dangerous Game”, in which she described her private life and painted a subjective picture of Poland in the 1970s and 1980s.
Attempt to sell documents
On February 16, 2016, Maria Kiszczakowa met with the president of the Institute of National Remembrance, Łukasz Kamiński, in an attempt to sell for 90,000. zloty, documents in her possession, relating, among other things, to Lech Wałęsa’s cooperation with the Security Service (SB). It was already suspected that General Kiszczak might have classified and secret documents from the PRL period. When Maria Kiszczak Łukasz Kamiński proposed a transaction, he informed the head of the Departmental Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation about the proposal, and on the same day the prosecutor and the police entered Kiszczak’s villa.
A total of 50 kg of original files from the communist period were found in the house of Maria Kiszczak. Among the materials seized were manuscripts, typescripts and photographs, a total of six large packages. Two days later, on February 18, 2016, the Institute of National Remembrance officially announced that the documents secured in the Kiszczak house include: two files – a personal file and a work file of a Secret Security Collaborator nicknamed “Bolek”, a handwritten commitment to cooperation signed: Lech Wałęsa “Bolek” and receipts for receipt of money signed “Bolek”. From the beginning of the disclosure of the documents, Lech Wałęsa himself publicly claimed that his signatures in the papers from Kiszczak’s wardrobe were forged.
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Source: wPolityce