{"id":2317,"date":"2019-05-25T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T09:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2019-05-25T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T10:13:49","slug":"jan-kaminski-a-longstanding-member-of-the-irish-polish-society-died-on-tuesday-21-st-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/history\/jan-kaminski-a-longstanding-member-of-the-irish-polish-society-died-on-tuesday-21-st-may\/","title":{"rendered":"JAN KAMINSKI, A LONGSTANDING MEMBER OF THE IRISH POLISH SOCIETY, DIED ON TUESDAY, 21 ST MAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dear Members and Friends,
\nJan Kaminski, a longstanding member of the Irish Polish Society, died on Tuesday, 21 st May. He was
\none of the founders of our Society and its first Chairman. He addressed Pope John Paul II on behalf
\nof the Polish community, on the 30 th of September 1979, in the garden of the Papal Nuncio. He was
\nan active member of the Society\u2019s committee for many years, until around 2014\/15 when his health
\nseriously deteriorated.
\nIn 1946, Jan arrived as a teenage boy in Great Britain with General Anders\u2019s 2 nd Polish Corps. Helped
\nby the Polish community in-exile in Britain, he was sent to school and completed his second-level
\neducation. He was granted a scholarship from the Veritas Foundation to study in Ireland. He began
\nhis academic studies initially in Cork, and in 1954 moved to Trinity College Dublin where he studied
\neconomics and political science. He completed his studies with honours and the degree of MA. He
\nstarted to work in Dublin as a restaurateur – he bought and ran the first Steak House in Ireland, and
\nthe first night-club. Later he got involved in the travel business and founded the Concorde Travel
\nAgency. After many years, he sold his very successful business to Joe Walsh Tours and subsequently
\nretired. However, being an active person, he did not \u2018step-down\u2019 completely; he explored some
\nbusiness opportunities in the construction sector, in Poland and in Germany.
\nJan was born in Bilgoraj. It is a small town in south-eastern Poland. Since its foundation in the 16 th
\ncentury, an important part of Bilgoraj\u2019s community was Jewish. By the time WW2 broke out, over
\nhalf of the town\u2019s population was Jewish. Jan concealed his Jewish identity for many years
\n(including his name: Chaim Zybner). Up to January 2013, when he gave some recollections during
\nthe Liveline RTE Radio programme on Irish Prisoners of WW2, he had never spoken about his Jewish
\nbackground and his extraordinary story of survival as an orphan Jewish child in Nazi occupied
\nPoland.
\nA ceremony to celebrate Jan\u2019s life will take place on Monday, 27 th May, at 10 am in the Victorian
\nChapel in Mount Jerome. The family has requested that donations be made to the Alzheimer Society
\nof Ireland in lieu of flowers.
\nOur deep sympathy goes out to Jan\u2019s children, Orla, Jadzia, Jas and the grandchildren.<\/p>\n

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