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After the death on August 18, 1983 of Professor Jan Zachwatowicz, architect, the most outstanding Polish conservator, the first Conservator General of Historical Monuments in Poland after 1944, we published recollections of his closest collaborator and friend Professor Dr Arch. Piotr Biegański („Ochrona Zabytkow”, no 3—4, 1983). A number of professional architectural centres and organisations in Poland have taken up various actions to honour the memory of Professor Zachwatowicz and to contribute thus to summing up his great attainments in the field of monuments protection and coservation. With this in mind, we have aproached a few people who, in our view, were most closely linked with Professor Zachwatowicz and we have proposed to them a free form of expression in „Ochrona Zabytkow”. We have not specified either the volume or nature of their expression; the only request we had was to describe the events associated with Jan Zachwatowicz, to give account of long-standing cooperation or one’s own reflections. We have been fu lly aware of the fact that the material compiled over such a short period cannot pretend to be a study of Professor Zachwatowicz’s personality. We are publishing all the accounts received, leaving their personal character and style unchanged.