PRZEMYK Grzegorz. Photo-report from the funeral. Warsaw [1983].

Set of 10 photos + "cover" in format:13x18cm.

Grzegorz Przemyk was the son of Barbara Sadowska, a poet in opposition to the communist authorities and a collaborator of the Primate's Committee for Aid to Persons Deprived of Liberty and Their Families. He studied at the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski High School No. XVII in Warsaw, and on May 12, 1983, he and his friends celebrated the completion of his high school diploma at Castle Square in Warsaw. That's when he was detained by MO officers, who allegedly didn't like his overly casual behavior. The teenager was quickly led to the police station on Jezuicka Street, where he was brutally beaten by three militiamen. An ambulance, summoned later, drove the poet's unconscious son to the Emergency Room on Hoża Street. Unfortunately, the abdominal injuries he sustained proved to be so extensive and serious that they caused his death two days later. His funeral took place on May 19, 1983 at the St. Stanislaw Kostka Church in Warsaw's Zoliborz district, and turned into a huge patriotic demonstration. After the funeral Mass, celebrated by Bishop Władysław Miziołek, thousands of participants in the ceremony made their way in silence several kilometers to the Powazki Cemetery, while the issue of the teenager's murder was raised in one of his later sermons by Solidarity chaplain and friend of Barbara Sadowska, Father Jerzy Popieluszko.