Bronisław Geremek in May 2006.

Professor Bronisław Geremek ( listen) (born Benjamin Lewertow on March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, died in a car crash on July 13, 2008 in Lubień, close to Nowy Tomyśl, Poland), was a Polish social historian and politician.

Geremek was born in Warsaw, Poland on March 6, 1932. His father, a fur merchant, was murdered in Auschwitz. His mother and he were smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 and were sheltered by Stefan Geremek. Geremek later married Bronisław’s mother and Bronisław was further raised in a Roman Catholic tradition . In his adult life he considered himself neither a Jew nor a Catholic. His grandfather was a maggid, his brother Jerry, living in New York is a Jew and his sons living in Poland are Roman Catholics.