Background
Labedz was born to a Polish Jewish doctor in Russia. The family soon returned to Warsaw and the young Labedz decided to follow his father into the medical profession.
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Leopold Labedz
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He studied medicine in Paris. After the war he studied at Bologna University before settling in London, where he studied at the London School of Economics.
Career
In 1939, he fled to the Soviet zone of occupation and was imprisoned by the Soviets in the Gulag. Many of Labedz"s relatives died in the Holocaust. He left the Soviet Union in 1942 as part of the Polish Army led by General Władysław Anders.
Strongly anti-communist, Labedz edited Survey journal and headed the London office of Committee for the Defense of Workers known by its Polish transcript as KOR. Labedz often campaigned for the Solidarity union in Poland, and for political prisoners in the Soviet Union.
Views
Labedz was one of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"s principal champions in the West and often defended the Russian writer against the charge of anti-semitism.
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Nationality
Poland -
Political Party
Solidarity