Career
Kopówka received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2009. He is the Senior Curator of the Treblinka extermination camp museum in Treblinka with certification from the Ministry of Culture.
Kopówka received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2009. He is the Senior Curator of the Treblinka extermination camp museum in Treblinka with certification from the Ministry of Culture.
In 1985-1988 he served as founder, editor-in-chief and production manager for the unofficial Grzegorz Przemyk Publishing named after the young Polish poet murdered by the Communist Milicja Obywatelska. In 2011 he was awarded the Knight"s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, one of Poland"s highest honours.
Kopówka supported himself financially by working as history teacher at elementary schools in Siedlce and its vicinity, and after the fall of communism, as clerk at the Office for Financial Control in 1993-1996.
Following the imposition of Martial law in 1981 Kopówka became member of the Independent Students" Union branch of Solidarity, the first non–communist workers union in Warsaw Pact history.
