WARMIA AND MAZURY IN 1946-1956 AS SEEN BY WLADYSLAW OGRODZINSKI, HISTORIAN AND LIBRARIAN AT THE PAU IN KRAKÓW

• Authors: Lewandowska I.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with the early phase in the career of Wladyslw Ogrodzinski, writer and fledgling historian. From his Cracow base - he nad a research job at the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU) - he made frequent journalistic forays into PoIand's Western and Northem Territories, and especially to the 'Warmia and Mazury'. He formed close emotiona! ties with the latter region, explored its past and the customs and lives of the indigenous people. In his contacts with the population of 'Warmia and Mazury' he was often confronted with institutional prejudice and injustice. Ogrodzinski documented the ill-treatment of the indigenous population by settlers from Eastern and Central Poland and appealed to the authorities to put an end to these abuses. The source materials used by the authoress of this article include Ogrodzinski's own texts (both those that appeared in print and those that were held up by the Censor's Office), official correspondence and private letters. The gaps in the sources have been filled in by excerpts from interviews with W. Ogrodzinski.

Keywords

EN

OGRODZINSKI WLADYSLAW - 'WARMIA & MAZURY' CHRONICLER

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Studia Historyczne
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 323-342
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lewandowska I.

• I. Lewandowska, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04708977