Lech Parell

Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression

The Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression reports to the Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy. His main tasks consist of:

• defining the main directions of activity of the Office aimed at securing to war veterans and victims of oppression the required assistance and care provided by state authorities and also the respect and remembrance due to such persons, 

• awarding the rights of War Veteran, Victim of Oppression, and person deported to perform forced labor,

• awarding the Office's honorary decorations,

• appointing and dismissing members of the Council for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression,

• cooperating with foreign governments' institutions for War Veterans and Victims of Oppresion an with veteran's organisations.