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Jerzy Giedroyc

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Born: July 26 1906

Died: 1313 09 20002000

Giedroyc was born into a Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic family; with the title of the kniaź, prince, his studies in Moscow were interrupted by the October Revolution, when he returned home, and during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 his family left Minsk for Warsaw, where he graduated from the Jan Zamoyski gymnasium in 1924 and studied law and Ukrainian history and literature at the University of Warsaw. As a journalist and civil servant in interwar Poland, he maintained contacts with leading Ukrainians and urged the Roman Catholic Church to improve relations with the Greek Catholic Church to which most Ukrainians belonged, insisting that Poland's success as a national state depended on satisfying the aspirations of minorities so that minority nationalists would not have convincing arguments against Polish statehood; he thus took the side of Józef Piłsudski as against the National Democrats. In 1930 he took over as editor of the weekly "Dzień Akademicki" which he soon transformed into the biweekly "Bunt Młodych", renaming it Polityka in 1937.

During World War II he served under General Władysław Anders in the Polish Army and kept up friendly contacts with representatives of other nationalities. After the war he moved to Paris, where he published and edited a leading Polish-émigré literary-political journal, Kultura , which promoted a peaceful settlement of Poland's eastern borders, accepting the results of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Yalta Conference, even though many Poles regarded these as betrayals of Poland; this helped lay the groundwork for Poland's successful eastern policy after the fall of communism. His closest collaborator was Juliusz Mieroszewski, who provided the theoretical justification for Polish recognition of the borders with Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania .

In 2006 the Polish Sejm declared the year 2006 to be the "Year of Jerzy Giedroyc."

He died in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France.

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Autobiografia na cztery ręce

Jerzy Giedroyc - Witold Gombrowicz. Listy 1950-1969

Jerzy Giedroyc - Andrzej Bobkowski. Listy 1946-1961

Jerzy Giedroyc - Czesław Miłosz. Listy 1952-1963

Jerzy Giedroyc - Jerzy Stempowski. Listy 1946-1969. Część pierwsza

З Нотаток Редактора

Jerzy Giedroyc - Konstanty A. Jeleński. Listy 1950 1987

Єжи Ґедройць та українська еміграція. Листування 1950-1982 років

Korespondencja 1950-2000, Jerzy Giedroyc, Bohdan Osadczuk

Combat et création. Zbigniew Herbert et le cercle de la revue Kultura (1958-1998)

Jerzy Giedroyc - Juliusz Mieroszewski. Listy 1949-1956. Część pierwsza

Listy 1952-1998

Jerzy Giedroyc - Józef Łobodowski. Listy 1947- 1988

Jerzy Giedroyc - Stanisław Vincenz. Listy 1946-1969

Jerzy Giedroyc - Witold Jedlicki. Listy 1959–1982

Jerzy Giedroyc - Teodor Parnicki. Listy 1946–1968

Listy 1969-1997