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Tadeusz Wilk was born on 3 March 1946 in the small village of Herby Stare near Częstochowa, Poland, to parents Felicia and Edward Wilk. His father was a member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), the largest resistance organisation in Poland during the Second World War. He was persecuted after the Communists took power and died in custody in Wrocław in 1950. Tadeusz grew up with his mother and three siblings, Ewa (1941), Witold (1947) and Stanislaw (1949). He graduated from primary school and in 1965 he graduated from the secondary technical school in Ozimek near Opole. He enlisted in the Polish Navy, where he served for three years on ships and submarines as an electro-navigator. After returning from compulsory military service, he started working for a Polish company on various water construction sites in Czechoslovakia. In 1972, he married Irena Lamařová in Boskovice, and they had two sons - Adam (1975) and Tadeusz (1978). After 1980, his brother Witold joined the Polish Solidarity movement, was investigated and had to emigrate to France in 1982. The witness often transported necessities and money across the border for family and friends. In 1985, he was sentenced to eight months’ unconditional imprisonment for the crime of violating the circulation of goods with foreign countries. After nearly six months’ imprisonment, he was released from prison on 8 May 1985 under a presidential amnesty. In the Security Services Archive (ABS) there is a volume arch. no. KR-451582 BN (reg. no. 37994 Blansko) under the code name “Ted”. The file was created in 1986 and the witness is listed in it as a person under investigation. He was confronted several times with State Security (StB) and interrogated in the infamous Bartolomějská Street interrogation room in Prague. In the 1990s, he bought a house from a former municipal enterprise in privatisation and built the first private bakery in Boskovice, which operated under his management until 2015. In the 1990s he divorced, divided the property, including the bakery, between his two sons and built a new company Wilk s.r.o., dealing with car transport. Nowadays (2026) Tadeusz Wilk has been living for thirty-one years with his partner Simona and their three children - Karolina, Sebastián and Natálie - in a family house in Boskovice.
