At the beginning of the November session Zdzisław Abramowicz received the title of Honorary Citizen of Bolesławiec. Zdzisław Abramowicz did not hide his emotion. In a brief speech after the title was conferred, he asked for a minute of silence in memory of the late former Commander of the Bolesławiec ZHP Scout District, Marianna Czak.
He then thanked all the people he had had the opportunity to meet and work with over the past 75 years, especially those particularly close to his heart—the ones in scout uniforms. Concluding his brief speech, Zdzisław Abramowicz wished everyone peaceful and joyful holidays.
Regarding the conferral of the title, the city council adopted a resolution at its September session. Twenty votes were in favor. No one voted against, and no one abstained.
The justification for the resolution conferring on Zdzisław Abramowicz the title of Honorary Citizen of Bolesławiec reads
as follows:A teacher and scout instructor, journalist, regional historian, co-author of guidebooks to the municipalities of Bolesławiec County, editor of historical television programs, commander of the scout district in 1982–1988 and 1999–2011, and city councillor for six terms of the Bolesławiec City Council.
He was born on April 4, 1947, in Wołów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship. He came to Bolesławiec with his parents in 1948. He completed primary school there, followed by a general secondary school. He studied technical, humanities, agricultural and theological subjects. After graduating from the Catholic Theological College, he became a catechist and taught religion for several years at Primary School No. 1 in Bolesławiec.
As early as the 1970s, he became actively involved in scouting. From 1978 to 1980, as one of the members of the Sports, Tourism and Recreation Department, he co-organized events, rallies, road races and technical-defense competitions at the city and voivodeship levels, and supported individual scout troops and groups. In 1981, he was locally involved in establishing the A. Małkowski Circles of Scout Instructors, which referred to the traditions of pre-war scouting. In the autumn of the same year, he also began efforts to establish the “Wigry” troop, named after the Home Army battalion of that name which took part in the Warsaw Uprising. The troop, later transformed into a scout group, was established four months before martial law was declared and operated very actively despite the significant restrictions on civil liberties introduced in Poland.
In 1982, Zdzisław Abramowicz was elected Commander of the Bolesławiec ZHP Scout District. He held this position until 1988, when he decided to resign because he did not want to yield to the ideological influence exerted on the scouting movement at that time. When old values began returning to scouting in 1989, he became Commander of the Scout District again. He held the position until 2011.
At the request of Bolesławiec veterans, he was elected President of the Bolesławiec Branch of the World Association of Home Army Soldiers, a position he held from 2006 to 2024. In 2005, he received a badge in recognition of his contribution to social work for the World Association of Home Army Soldiers and its dedication to the ethos of the Home Army.
Zdzisław Abramowicz was first elected to the City Council in 1994. He served as a councillor during the second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth terms. He served as deputy chair of the City Council, chaired a standing committee several times, and during the Council’s second term was also a member of the Bolesławiec City Board.
He has been interested in Polish history since childhood and is also passionate about regional history. His subjects of interest have included Polish cultural and historical materials in the so-called Recovered Territories, as well as local history from the 1930s to the 1950s. He often investigates the individual stories of people and their families. His interests led him to become actively involved in the work of the Council of the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec and to participate actively in the editorial work of the “Bolesławiec Yearbook”. He took part in academic conferences, including “The Security Office in Bolesławiec” in 2009 and “Residents of Bolesławiec—They Did Not Come from Nowhere. On the Settlement Landscape of Lower Silesia” in 2016. He is the author or co-author of more than twenty historical monographs. He contributed to accounts of the history of many places in the Bolesławiec Land, including Bolesławiec, Iwiny, Gościszów, Nowogrodziec, Zebrzydowa, Osła and localities in the Bolesławiec Municipality. His research and investigations cover areas from Zgorzelec to Krzeszów, as well as Lubusz Land and Greater Poland.
He published in local and regional newspapers, including “Gazeta Wrocławska” and “Gazeta Wojewódzka”. He co-created more than 1,100 television programs. The most popular include the “Echoes of the Past” series produced by TV Łużyce, the “Discovering History” program made by Telewizja Lokalna Bolesławiec, and “Signs of History”, broadcast on TVT Zgorzelec. He worked with several well-known television and press editors and also served as an organizer and consultant for a number of cultural and historical projects.