His father was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Sent his wife to accept his Nobel Prize, as he feared he would not be allowed to return to Poland. Timeline 1961-1965 - Works as a car mechanic.

He and former Polish political prisoners voiced “horror and disgust” at President Trump’s scolding of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last week, saying it reminded them of encounters with ...

WARSAW — Lech Walesa, Poland’s 80-year-old former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, said Thursday that he is improving after being hospitalized with a bad case of COVID-19. A post on Walesa’s ...

Bringing his Ukraine relief campaign to Hartford, former Polish President Lech Walesa on Tuesday called on a crowd at Infinity Hall in Hartford to help the millions of refugees flooding into Poland.

As someone who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s, one of my heroes was Lech Walesa. The electrician in the Gdansk Shipyard in communist-controlled Poland who went on to topple communism and change the ...

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It's not every day that a state trooper helps a Nobel Peace Prize winner. It's even rarer when that person hails from your native country. A Connecticut state trooper who is a native of Poland helped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Lech Walesa former President of Poland, speaks after being awarded withthe "Golden Medal for services to reconciliation and ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Former Polish President Lech Walesa said as turned 80 on Friday that he is supporting opposition leader Donald Tusk's effort to oust Poland's conservative government in the ...