{"id":17144,"date":"2024-06-17T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/jacques-kaminski\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:41:27","slug":"jacques-kaminski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/jacques-kaminski\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Kaminski"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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As Herv\u00e9(1907\u20131978) said<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Jacques Kaminski, whose real name was Jankiel Unglik, was born on October 6, 1907, in Poland, into a working-class Jewish family in the village of Klobusk. He had to leave school at the age of thirteen and became a barber\u2019s apprentice. <\/p>

He joined the Communist Youth at the age of sixteen and emigrated to Belgium and then, in 1930, to France, where he settled.<\/p>

He is active in the Jewish section of the M.O.I. He serves as secretary of \u201cJewish Labor\u201d and of the \u201cFriends of La<\/em> Na\u00efe Presse<\/em>, <\/em> \u201d<\/em> the <\/em>progressive Yiddish-language daily newspaper founded in 1934. <\/p>

During the Spanish Civil War, Kaminski traveled to Spain to work with Jewish fighters to organize political activities (including the work of leadership cadres) and communications for the Botwin Company (through its publications).<\/p>

Louis Gronowski, the national leader of the M.O.I., appointed him \u201chead of organizational affairs.\u201d Jacques Kaminski would become part of the M.O.I.\u2019s \u201cleadership trio\u201d alongside Louis Gronowski and Artur London. <\/p>

In September 1940, Jacques Kaminski, Louis Gronowski, and former leaders of the Jewish section of the M.O.I. founded the underground mutual aid organization, \u201cSolidarit\u00e9,\u201d which would later become the Union of Jews for the Resistance and Mutual Aid (UJRE).<\/p>

Following the Communists\u2019 creation of the Organisation Sp\u00e9ciale (OS) for armed resistance against the occupying forces in October 1940, Kaminski took charge of organizing the OS-M.O.I. in 1941.<\/p>

After the various communist guerrilla organizations were unified within the FTPF, Kaminski was tasked with forming the FTP-M.O.I. and entrusted its military leadership to Boris Holban in the spring of 1942.<\/p>

During the Occupation, he served as a liaison between the national leadership of the PCF and the M.O.I. Resistance fighters. He worked in close collaboration with Gronowski and Holban. The soundness of his judgment and the wisdom of his decisions were unanimously recognized. <\/p>

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In 1947, Kaminski returned to Poland, where he joined the security services. In the early 1950s, he was removed from that post but was subsequently put in charge of relations between the Polish United Workers\u2019 Party (PUWP) and the Communist parties of Western Europe. <\/p>

Unlike his comrade-in-arms, Louis Gronowski, Jacques Kaminski remained in Poland, where they had both returned after the war \u201cto build socialism there,\u201d and he died in Warsaw on June 12, 1978.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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References:<\/strong><\/p>

– Louis Gronowski-Brunot, 1980, *Le dernier grand soir*. Editions <\/em>du Seuil.<\/p>

– St\u00e9phane Courtois, Denis Peschanski, Adam Rayski, 1994, *Le Sang de l\u2019Etranger* <\/em>, Fayard<\/p>

– Photo: Diamant David , *Combatants, Heroes, and Martyrs of the Resistance*<\/em>, Renouveau, 1984 <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Herv\u00e9(1907\u20131978) said Jacques Kaminski, whose real name was Jankiel Unglik, was born on October 6, 1907, in Poland, into a working-class Jewish family in the village of Klobusk. He had to leave school at the age of thirteen and became a barber\u2019s apprentice. He joined the Communist Youth at the age of sixteen and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"salle":[183],"source":[],"zone-geo":[],"class_list":["post-17144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies","salle-3-1-the-involvement-of-jews-immigrants-in-the-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17151,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144\/revisions\/17151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17144"},{"taxonomy":"salle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/salle?post=17144"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=17144"},{"taxonomy":"zone-geo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zone-geo?post=17144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}