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Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski was a Polish military general and politician born on 6 July 1923 in Kurów, eastern Poland, and who died on 25 May 2014 in Warsaw.
He came from a family of Polish gentry of the Ślepowron coat of arms with roots in the Mazovia-Podlasie border region.
His father, Władysław Mieczysław Jaruzelski, was an agronomist educated in Czechoslovakia who had fought in the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 and worked as an estate administrator.