Helena Wolińska-Brus

Helena Wolińska-Brus
Photographic portrait of Wolińska c.1950s
Born
Fajga Mindla Danielak

(1919-02-28)28 February 1919
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
Died26 November 2008(2008-11-26) (aged 89)
Oxford, England
Resting placeWolvercote Cemetery, Oxford
CitizenshipPolish, British
OccupationProsecutor
Known forState Security Services
(Służba Bezpieczeństwa)
SpouseFranciszek Jóźwiak Włodzimierz Brus

Helena Wolińska-Brus (born Fajga Mindla Danielak; 28 February 1919 – 26 November 2008) was a military prosecutor in the Polish People's Republic with the rank of lieutenant-colonel (podpułkownik), involved in the Stalinist show trials of the 1950s. She has been implicated in the arrest and execution of many Polish World War II resistance fighters, including significant figures in Poland's wartime Home Army.

The Third Polish Republic sought the extradition of Wolińska-Brus from the United Kingdom on three occasions between 1999 and 2008. The official charges against her were initiated by the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), which investigates both Nazi and Communist crimes committed in Poland between 1939 and 1989. Wolińska-Brus was accused of being an "accessory to a judicial murder".

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