Saturday, April 10, 2010
Another victim is Anna Walentynowicz. She was fired in August 1980 from the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk. That event sparked a workers' strike that spurred the eventual creation of the Solidarity freedom movement.
Also among the dead is Ryszard Kaczorowski, the President-in Exile during the communist era.
President Kaczynski was traveling to Russia to commemorate the anniversary of the murder of thousands of Polish officers at the start of World War II.