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As a member of the Polish United Workers' Party 's Politbiuro he was in charge of the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa and considered Joseph Stalin 's right hand in Poland between 1944 and 1953 . He received a Law degree in 1925 from the Warsaw University , and was an assistant to Marxist sociologist Prof. He was working on the doctoral thesis but was never to finish it. After the break out of the Polish-German war in September of 1939 he fled to Soviet Union -occupied eastern part of Poland , first to Bialystok and in the spring of 1941 to Minsk . There, worked as an editor at Sztandar Wolności ( The Banner of Freedom ), the Polish-language organ of the Belarusian Communist Party . After German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 he escaped to Moscow and later became an instructor at the Comintern school in the city of Ufa , southeast of Kuibyshev , training activists who would form a new party for Polish communists the Polish Workers' Party . In December of 1943 he met with Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin , gained his trust and become a prominent figure among Polish communists in the Soviet Union . In 1944 Berman became Politbiuro member of the communist Polish Workers' Party . Upon his return to Poland in 1944 , he, together with Boleslaw Bierut and the economist Hilary Minc , formed a triumvirate of Stalinist leaders in postwar Poland. Between 1948 - 1956 Berman was a member of Politbiuro of Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP) responsible for Urzad Bezpieczenstwa (State Security Services), propaganda, and ideology.¹ In this capacity he was directly responsible for Stalinist -type terror and repressions against real and imagined political opponents of the communist regime in Poland . Urzad Bezpieczenstwa prosecution of ex- Home Army members, Catholic Church clergy, and purges in the military, resulted in at least 6,000 deaths sentences, imprisonment and prosecuction of estimated 500,000 Polish patriots.² After the death of Boleslaw Bierut , first secretary of the PUWP, he resigned in June 1956 from the PUWP Politbiuro , was relieved in fall of 1956 from Central Committee of PUWP, and in 1957 dismissed from PUWP altogether as responsible for " Stalinist -era errors and mistakes". Until retirement in 1969 , he worked in the state-run "Ksiażka i Wiedza" ("Book and Knowledge") publishing house.³

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Jakub Berman was born on December 26, 1901, in Warsaw , then Russian Empire , into a middle-class Polish Jewish family, and died on April 10, 1984. Berman was a Polish communist politician, and a member of the Polish United Workers' Party 's Politburo where he was in charge of State Security Services ( Urząd Bezpieczeństwa ), and considered Joseph Stalin 's right hand in the People's Republic of Poland between 1944 and 1953 . He received a Law degree in 1925 from the Warsaw University , and was an assistant to Marxist sociologist Prof. He was working on the doctoral thesis but was never to finish it. After the break out of the Polish-German-Soviet War in September 1939, he fled to the Soviet Union -occupied eastern part of Poland, first to Białystok , and in the spring of 1941 to Minsk . There, worked as an editor at Sztandar Wolności ( The Banner of Freedom ), the Polish-language organ of the Belarusian Communist Party . After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, he escaped to Moscow and later became an instructor at the Comintern school in the city of Ufa , southeast of Kuibyshev , training activists who would form a new party for Polish communists the Polish Workers' Party . In December 1943 he met with Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin , gained his trust and became a prominent figure among Polish communists in the Soviet Union. In 1944 Berman became Politbiuro member of the communist Polish Workers' Party. Upon his return to Poland in 1944, he, together with Bolesław Bierut and the economist Hilary Minc , formed a triumvirate of Stalinist leaders in postwar Poland. Between 1944–1956 Berman was a member of Politbiuro of Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP) responsible for Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (State Security Services), propaganda, and ideology. After the death of Bolesław Bierut, first secretary of the PUWP, he resigned in June 1956 from the PUWP Politbiuro, was relieved in fall of 1956 from Central Committee of PUWP, and in 1957 dismissed from PUWP altogether as responsible for " Stalinist -era errors and distortions". Until retirement in 1969, he worked in the state-run "Ksiażka i Wiedza" ("Book and Knowledge") publishing house. Berman was the brother of Adolf Berman , a Zionist activist.

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Jakub Berman (26 December 1901 – 10 April 1984) was a prominent communist in prewar Poland . Toward the end of World War II he joined the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party . Between 1944 and 1953, he was considered Joseph Stalin 's right hand in the People's Republic of Poland – in charge of the Ministry of Public Security – the largest secret police in Polish history and one of its most repressive institutions. Polish Secret Police, The "Bezpieka": Dossiers of Polish secret police functionaries

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An early activist during the Second Polish Republic , in post-war communist Poland he was a member of the Politburo of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) and then of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). Alongside President Bolesław Bierut , Berman was responsible for party oversight of the Stalinist Ministry of Public Security , commonly known as the "UB". From 1948, he was considered the second most powerful politician in Poland after Bierut, until removed from power in 1956, following Bierut's death.

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Polish politician (1901–1984) Jakub Berman (23 December 1901 – 10 April 1984) was a Polish communist politician. An activist during the Second Polish Republic , in post-war communist Poland he was a member of the Politburo of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) and then of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). From 1948, he was considered the second most powerful politician in Poland after President Bolesław Bierut , until he was removed from power in 1956, following Bierut's death. Alongside Bierut, Berman was responsible for party oversight of the Stalinist Ministry of Public Security , commonly known as the "UB". Under Berman's leadership, 200,000 people were imprisoned for alleged political crimes, and 6000 were executed.

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