Roman Romkowski

Who was Roman Romkowski?

Roman Romkowski born Natan Grünspan [Grinszpan]-Kikiel, was a communist official of Jewish background trained by Comintern in Moscow, who changed his name and settled into Warsaw after the Soviet takeover, and became second in command in Berman's Ministry of Public Security during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Along with several other high functionaries including Dir. Anatol Fejgin, Col. Józef Różański, Dir. Julia Brystiger and the chief supervisor of Polish State Security Services, Minister Jakub Berman from the Politburo, Romkowski came to symbolize communist terror in postwar Poland. He was responsible for the work of departments: Counter-espionage, Espionage, Security in the PPR–PZPR, and others.