Adamowicz was born in Gdańsk . His parents Ryszard and Teresa were Polish economists , who were resettled to Poland from Vilnius , Soviet Lithuania , in 1946 . Paweł later recalled that his parents were suspicious of communism and party propaganda . " Like many Poles of our generation , my brother and I have thus been shaped against the obligatory official history ; since childhood we have known not only the sinister wording of the Gestapo abbreviation , but also the NKVD ; we perfectly understood what is behind the names of distant places : Kazakhstan , Siberia , Katyn . We hardly saw a place for ourselves in this double world . " He studied law at the University of Gdańsk , where he also rose to prominence as a student movement member . He was one of the organizers of the 1988 strike , becoming the head of the strike committee . Between 1990 and 1993 , he served as a vice-rector for student affairs at his alma mater
Katyn
Katyn massacre
Paweł Adamowicz