Maria Dłużewska died - letter from the President
date:10 May 2024 Editor: Editorial
We said goodbye to Maria Dłużewska.
The ceremony ceremony began at the Basilica of the Archatedal St. John the Baptist in Warsaw on 27 May at 2:00 p.m.
During the ceremony in the Cathedral, Minister Andrzej Dera read the letter of the president of Poland. He besides handed the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta to the closest household of the Dead, awarded posthumously to Mary Dłużewski.
After the ceremony Mass, there was a farewell at the Military Cemetery in Powązki, in the quarters at the Link.
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27 May 2024
Participants of ceremony ceremonies
Ms Maria Dłużewska
Ladies and gentlemen!
Deeply saddened by the departure of Mrs. Maria Dłużewski, I pay a solemn tribute to her memory today. I say goodbye to the talented movie artist, writer and author of books, mentioned by many friends as an empathic, helpful and delicate person, yet highly energetic. I express my highest respect for the consequences and courage with which she served the fact and the large thought of Poland free, solidarity and justice.
An actor by her education, in the 1970s. Mrs Maria performed in theatres in the Coast and in Warsaw. Just after the events of August 1980, she joined the ranks of the NSZZ “Solidarity”. She was a co-organizer of Christian Culture Weeks and Mass for Homeland. In the state of war associated with the underground Home Theatre, from 1983 to 1985 she led the second-cycle Monday Theatre established by her. She was a collector of underground releases, she was editor and songwriter of Radio Solidarity, she acted in Fighting Solidarity. In the early 1990s – after respective years of work in the weekly “Meetings” and then “Solidarity Week”, she decided to combine her journalistic passion, commitment to public affairs and exceptional communicative and organizational skills as a director, screenwriter and documentary movie producer. respective twelve of these works – valued and rewarded, treating mainly the past of Polish struggles with communist bondage and about our compatriots in the country – are and will stay an crucial origin of cognition about modern Poland and Poles.
A series of papers about the Smolensk tragedy, about those who lost their lives in it, and about close victims, deserves peculiar recognition. These are films entitled Fog, Disgrace, Daughter, Testament, Poles and Lady. I believe that without these images – created from the request of the heart, hot and at the same time very reliable and professional – it is impossible to realize what happened on April 10, 2010, and the consequences of the Smolensk disaster in subsequent months and years. I am and will always be grateful that in any of these films she besides gave the level to me – so that I can witness about people and events related to this large tragedy.
To the dear and dear friends of the Dead I offer my heartfelt sympathy.
Eternal remainder give to her, Lord!
With respect
President of Poland
Andrzej Duda
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Maria (Majka) died at the age of 72 Dłużewska – journalist, journalist, screenwriter, distinguished documentaryist, connected with the independency opposition. Author of many documentary films and books devoted to Smolensk tragedy.
Maria Dłużewska was born on 26 September 1951 in Kielce. She graduated from the State Higher Theatre School in Warsaw. As an actress, she played in theatres in Koszalin, Gdynia and Warsaw.
She acted in the NSZZ “Solidarity”. She co-organized the Mass for Homeland and Weeks of Christian Culture. She ran the Monday Theatre in Ursus. She was a collector of underground publishing. She was editor and songwriter of Radio Solidarity. From 1984 to 1988, she worked in Fighting Solidarity.
After 1989, she worked as a writer in the weekly "Meetings" and "Solidarity Week". Since 1993, she has been active in documentaries.
After the tragedy in Smolensk in 2010, she began making films and writing books about this event. In “Mgle” (film and book), she focused on showing the disaster itself, in “Pogrze” she showed the tragedy experienced by the families of the victims. “Daughter” was dedicated to the daughter of the presidential couple Lech and Maria Kaczyński, Marcie, “Testament” told about the children of 5 victims of the disaster. The protagonists of the movie and book “Poles” were 4 scientists investigating the causes of the catastrophe. The movie and book “Dam” commemorated the figure of the First Lady, Mari Kaczyńska.
Her death is simply a large failure to Polish culture and to us who knew her and appreciated her for her courage and uncompromisingness and large individual charm.
May he remainder in peace...
