Lech Walesa: A Life of Struggle and Triumph

Lech Walesa is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was born on September 29, 1943, in Popowo, near Włocławek, Poland. He helped form and led communist Poland’s first independent trade union, Solidarity, and became the charismatic leader of millions of Polish workers. He went on to become the president of Poland from 1990 to 1995. He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983.

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Lech Walesa

Lech Walesa’s parents were his father, Boleslaw Walesa, a carpenter, and his mother Felicja Walesa. During World War II, the Nazis put Walesa’s father in a concentration camp. He attended technical school in nearby Lipno and worked briefly as an electromechanic in Lochocin.