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Edward Ochab
First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party
In office March 1956 – October 1956
Preceded by	Bolesław Bierut
Succeeded by	Władysław Gomułka
Personal details
Spouse	Liwa Ochab née Oshpitzin

Edward Ochab (born 1906 – died 1989) was a Polish communist politician promoted to the position of the First Secretary of the Communist party in the People's Republic of Poland between March and October 1956 just prior to Gomułka thaw. Political coniuncturalist with a Stalinist past, Ochab served as the head of state in the years 1964-1968. He withdrew from politics in 1968 in the aftermath of the anti-Semitic campaign conducted by his own governing Polish United Workers' Party.

The wife of Edward Ochab, Liwa, stemmed from a Hasidic family of Oshpitzin, residing in Israel, with whom the couple maintained correspondence.

References

• Chaim Wolnerman, "Water Carriers".
• The New York Times, May 3, 1989, "Edward Ochab Is Dead; Poland Ex-Official."

See also

• Them: Stalin's Polish Puppets by Teresa Torańska

v t e Chairmen of the Polish Council of State
Bolesław Bierut Aleksander Zawadzki Edward Ochab Marian Spychalski Józef Cyrankiewicz Henryk Jabłoński Wojciech Jaruzelski

v t e First Secretaries of the Central Committee of the PZPR
Bolesław Bierut Edward Ochab Władysław Gomułka Edward Gierek Stanisław Kania Wojciech Jaruzelski Mieczysław Rakowski

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