Jan Grzebski

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Jan Grzebski (born in 1942) is a former Polish railroad worker who fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988. 19 years later, in 2007, Grzebski woke up from the coma. Doctors had not expected Grzebski to survive, let alone emerge from the coma. He credits his survival to his wife, Gertruda Grzebska, who cared and prayed for him. Grzebski was a father of four at the time of the accident. He now plans to meet his 11 grandchildren. In an interview on June 1, 2007, with the Polish news channel TVN 24, wheelchair-bound Grzebski described his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse.

“ When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere.
Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin.		 ”

He was featured in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! comic strip for August 27, 2007.

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