Zbigniew Brzeziński was born in Warsaw, Poland, on March 28, 1928 [11] into a Roman Catholic szlachta family bearing the Trąby coat of arms, originally from Brzeżany, Tarnopol Voivodeship (then part of Poland, currently in Ukraine). [12] The town of Brzeżany is thought to be the source of the family name. Brzeziński’s parents were Leonia (née Roman) Brzeziński and Tadeusz Brzeziński, a …