After his military service in Stryj, Galicia, Gierek went to Belgium in 1934, where he joined the Communist Party of Belgium while working in the coal mines of Waterschei.
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Gierek married Stanisława, née Jędrusik, and they had two sons, one of whom is MEP Adam Gierek.
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The delegation consisted of several high-ranking officials, including Polish leader Władysław Gomułka, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and the First Secretary of the local office of the Polish Communist Party, Edward Gierek (who himself was born in Sosnowiec’s district of Porąbka).
Adam Gierek (born 1938, Zwartberg), a Polish post-communism politician, and son of Edward Gierek