Katz-Sukhiy, Julius

Yuda Katz was born on January 28, 1912 in Sanok . He was the third child of the Jewish family of Shulim Katz, the storekeeper of the tobacco monopoly, and then a small merchant. In addition to Judah, the family included Sister Tonka (1902–?) And brother Bentsion (1907–1968), the future rector of Tel Aviv University . Shortly after the birth of Judah, his mother died ^[1] .

He graduated from elementary school, and then, in 1931, the city gymnasium in Sanok ^[2] . Even in the gymnasium, he joined the communist movement. In 1927-1929 he was a member of Hashomer hazair . In 1928 he joined the Communist Youth League of Western Ukraine (KSM ZU). Since 1929, he was secretary of the city committee of KSM ZU, as well as a member of the district committee of the organization. In the 1930s, he became a member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine ^[3] .

He entered the law faculty of the Jagiellonian University , but was expelled after the first course for communist activity. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison, of which he served two and a half. A couple of months was concluded in the Birch-Kartuzskaya . Illegally moved to Czechoslovakia , where he continued his studies in Prague ^[4] . During this period, he published articles of a socialist orientation in the press, including under the pseudonym Sukhiy, which later became part of his surname ^[3] . In March 1938 he was forced to flee from Czechoslovakia back to Poland. From Poland on a fishing vessel he moved to England ^[4] .

In England, he began working at Reuters . During World War II, he first worked for the government of General Sikorski ^[4] at the Polish Telegraph Agency ^[5] , but then he joined the small pro-communist group of Polish emigrants ^[4] .

After the war he returned to Poland, and began working in the diplomatic service. After the UK recognized the Government of National Unity , in 1945, he was appointed press officer of the Polish Embassy in London . However, already in 1946, he was transferred as Deputy Permanent Representative of Poland to the UN to New York . Then he took the post of representative, replacing Professor Oscar Lange . He held office until mid-1951, taking part in sessions of the UN General Assembly , in sessions of the UN Economic and Social Council , in the work of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva . In parallel, he served as director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs. He was a member of the board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland . In the period 1953-1954, he again served as the representative of Poland to the UN ^[4] .

He participated in the committee that created the draft Universal Declaration of Human Rights . During the voting of the declaration at the 183rd plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in the Palais de Chaillot ( Paris ) on December 10, 1948, abstained, like most countries of the Soviet bloc . He explained his voice like this:

The Universal Declaration is a step backward from the Declaration developed during the French Revolution .

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In 1955, he was the representative of Poland at the International Atomic Energy Conference. In 1957-1962, the ambassador of Poland to India ^[5] .

In the summer of 1961, Katz-Sukhoi's cousin, Irena Penzik, the daughter of the famous lawyer and deputy Seim Abram Penzik , who worked as a secretary for Julius during his stay in New York, published the book “Sand for Taste” (Ashes to the Taste). The book contained memories of the period of work at Katz-Sukhoi, and caused irreparable harm to his political career ^[4] .

In 1962, after returning from India, Juliusz Katz-Sukhiy became a professor at the Department of International Law at the University of Warsaw ^[5] , although he did not have a completed higher education ^[4] .

During the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968, he was dismissed from all posts. In 1970, he moved to Denmark and began teaching at Aarhus University ^[4] .

He died on October 27, 1971. He was buried next to his wife Elzbieta (1912-1989) in the Jewish cemetery of Copenhagen ^[4] .

He had two daughters, Eric and Barbara ^[1] .

• Order "Banner of Labor" 2 degrees
• Polish Renaissance Order of the Commander ^[6]
• Golden Cross of Merit (1946 ^[7] , 1954 ^[8] )
• Medal "10th Anniversary of People's Poland" (1955) ^[9]

• 1967: Międzynarodowe stosunki gospodarcze. Organizacja i aspekty prawno-polityczne
• 1966: Zarys historii dyplomacji