Gwiazda's father was a sailor of the Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy, stationed in Pińsk (now Belarus), where the family moved in 1939, a few months before the outbreak of World War II.
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After capitulation of Poland he was caught by the Germans, and spent the war in Oflag II-C in Woldenberg.
Andrzej Gwiazda (born 1935), in Gdańsk engineer and prominent opposition leader
Andrzej Wajda | Andrzej Seweryn | Józef Andrzej Załuski | Andrzej Żuławski | Andrzej Sapkowski | Andrzej Lepper | Andrzej Gwiazda | Andrzej Fidyk | Jan Andrzej Zakrzewski | Andrzej Trzebicki | Andrzej Stanisław Załuski | Andrzej Kurylewicz | Andrzej Kotkowski | Andrzej Kostenko | Andrzej Bogucki | Henry Gwiazda | Gwiazda Polski | Gwiazda Lake | Andrzej Walkowiak | Andrzej Wach | Andrzej Trautman | Andrzej Stasiuk | Andrzej Skarbek | Andrzej Sekuła | Andrzej Sakson | Andrzej Przemysław Zamoyski | Andrzej Potocki | Andrzej Piotr Ruszczyński | Andrzej Pilipiuk | Andrzej Markowski |
Andrzej Gwiazda, who was one of the leaders of the so-called First Solidarity (August 1980 – December 1981), claims that the Round Table Agreement and the negotiations that took place before it at a Communist government's Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Poland) conference center (late 1988 and early 1989) in the village of Magdalenka had been arranged by Moscow.
The peasants were helped by such personalities, as Lech Wałęsa, Andrzej Gwiazda, Andrzej Stelmachowski and Jadwiga Staniszkis.