Family
Adam Michnik was born to a family of Jewish communists. His father, Ozjasz (Uzziah) Szechter, was the first secretary of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine and his mother, Helena (née Michnik), a historian and children's book writer. His half brother, Stefan Michnik, was a judge in the 1950s during the Stalinist period and is accused of passing death sentences on Polish resistance movement soldiers. He was forced to emigration after the March 1968; from then on, he supported the anti-communist civil resistance.
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