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Karol Kuryluk (27 October 1910 – 9 December 1967) was a Polish
journalist
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,
editor
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,
activist
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,
politician
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and
diplomat
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. In 2002, he was honored by
Yad Vashem
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for saving Jews in the
Holocaust
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.
Biography
Kuryluk was born on 27 October 1910 in
Zbaraż
Zbarazh ( uk, Збараж, pl, Zbaraż, yi, זבאריזש, Zbarizh) is a city in Ternopil Raion of Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is located in the historic region of Galicia. Zbarazh hosts the administration of Zbarazh ur ...
(Zbarazh), a small town in
Galicia, the eastern province of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire
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(after
World War I
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part of
Poland
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, today in
Ukraine
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), and died in
Budapest
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. He was the eldest son of Franciszek Kuryluk, a mason, and Łucja, née Pańczyszak. He had four brothers (two of them died in early childhood) and five sisters.
In 1930, after finishing
high school
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in his native town, Kuryluk received a small scholarship to study
Polish language
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at the
University of Lviv
The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...
in the former capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia and a multicultural metropolis (Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Armenians, Belarusians, Germans and Tatars). He was multilingual (Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and German), and during his studies he supported himself and helped his family back home by giving private lessons.
In 1931, Kuryluk met the writer and philanthropist
Halina Górska and became involved in her
social care
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project Akcja Błękitnych (Action of the Blue Knights), distributing food and clothing to slum children and helping to run shelters for homeless boys. At the University he protested against the "bench ghetto", set up by the nationalists to separate Poles and Jews in the
lecture hall
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s, and he sided with Jewish and Ukrainian students who were harassed and beaten up by the
Endecja
National Democracy ( pl, Narodowa Demokracja, also known from its abbreviation ND as ''Endecja''; ) was a Polish political movement active from the second half of the 19th century under the foreign partitions of the country until the end of ...
gangs.
He married
Miriam Kohany, a poet, writer and translator who during the war changed her name to
Maria Grabowska and published under the name of Maria Kuryluk. They had two children,
Ewa Kuryluk, an artist and writer, and Piotr Kuryluk, a translator.
In September 1967, Kuryluk suffered a
heart attack
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. He flew to a book fair in Budapest against his doctor's advice and died there on 9 December 1967.
Kuryluk is buried together with his wife and son at the
Powązki Military Cemetery
Powązki Military Cemetery (; pl, Cmentarz Wojskowy na Powązkach) is an old military cemetery located in the Żoliborz district, western part of Warsaw, Poland. The cemetery is often confused with the older Powązki Cemetery, known colloquiall ...
in a tomb designed by Ewa Kuryluk.
Literary career
In 1933 Kuryluk founded the cultural periodical ''
Sygnały'' (''Signals'' Magazine) with the poet
Tadeusz Hollender
Tadeusz Hollender (30 May 1910 – 31 May 1943) was a Polish poet, translator and humorist. During World War II, he wrote satirical articles and poems in underground press, for that he was arrested by the German Gestapo and executed in May in the ...
and became its editor-in-chief. He called upon the young literary talent in the city (
Erwin Axer
Erwin Axer (1 January 1917 – 5 August 2012) was a Polish theatre director, writer and university professor. A long-time head of Teatr Współczesny (Contemporary Theatre) in Warsaw, he also staged numerous plays abroad, notably in German-speakin ...
,
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (; 6 March 1909 – 7 May 1966), born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, was a Poles, Polish aphorism, aphorist and poetry, poet. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of Military occupations by the Soviet Union, post- ...
, Czesław Miłosz,
Mirosław Żuławski
Mirosław Żuławski (16 January 1913 – 17 February 1995) was a Polish writer, prosaist, diplomat and screenwriter. He was father of film director, Andrzej Żuławski.
Biography
Mirosław Żuławski was born in Nisko. He graduated in law and d ...
), won over established writers from all over the country (
Maria Dąbrowska,
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy ...
,
Leopold Staff
Leopold Henryk Staff (November 14, 1878 – May 31, 1957) was a Polish poet; an artist of European modernism twice granted the Degree of Doctor honoris causa by universities in Warsaw and in Kraków. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize i ...
,
Andrzej Strug
Andrzej Strug, real name Tadeusz (or Stefan) Gałecki (sources vary; 28 November 1871/1873 in Lublin – 9 December 1937 in Warsaw) was a Polish socialist politician, publicist and activist for Poland's independence. He was also a freemas ...
,
Julian Tuwim
Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym "Oldlen" as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied la ...
), and published translations of writings by foreign authors (
Appolinaire,
Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse (; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein.
Life
The son of a French father and an English mother, Barbusse was born in Asnièr ...
,
André Malraux
Georges André Malraux ( , ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by P ...
,
Carl von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky (; 3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German re-armament.
As editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Die ...
,
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...
,
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in seve ...
,
Paul Valéry
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, mus ...
). Special issues were dedicated to Jewish, Ukrainian and Belorussian culture, and to the city of Lwów.
''Signals'' promoted the work of contemporary Polish artists (
Henryk Gotlib
Henryk Gotlib (10 January 1890 – 30 December 1966) was a Polish painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and writer, who settled in England during World War II and made a significant contribution to modern British art. He was profoundly influenced ...
,
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy ...
,
Zygmunt Waliszewski
Zygmunt Waliszewski (1897–1936) was a Polish painter, a member of the Kapist movement.
Biography
Waliszewski was born in Saint Petersburg to the Polish family of an engineer. In 1907 his parents moved to Tbilisi where Waliszewski spent h ...
) and avant-garde photographers (Otto Hahn,
Mieczysław Szczuka), and popularized modern European art (
van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inclu ...
,
Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetism, Synthetist style that were d ...
,
Archipenko Arkhypenko ( uk, Архипенко), also transliterated as Arkhipenko, Archipenko, is a Ukrainian-language family name of patronymic derivation from the Slavic first name Arkhyp/Arkhip (). The Belarusian-language version is Arkhipienka.
The sur ...
,
Max Ernst
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism ...
). A group of gifted graphic artists and caricaturists (K. Baraniecki, F. Kleinmann,
Eryk Lipiński
Eryk Lipiński (; 12 July 1908, Kraków - 27 September 1991) was a Polish artist. Satirist, caricaturist, essayist, he has designed posters, written plays and sketches for cabarets, as well as written books on related subjects.
Biography
Eryk ...
, Franciszek Parecki) collaborated with the magazine, which was famous for its biting humor and merciless derision of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and the Polish anti-Semites, but also of Stalin. By mid-thirties ''Signals'' had become a leading periodical of the leftist Polish intelligentsia.
In 1938, an armed gang of ONR (
National Radical Camp
The National Radical Camp ( pl, Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny, ONR) refers to at least three groups that are fascist, far-right, and ultranationalist Polish organisations with doctrines stemming from pre-World War II nationalist ideology.
The cur ...
) raided the editorial office and Kuryluk just barely escaped being killed. Yet he managed to continue publishing ''Signals'', in spite of financial hardship, ongoing
censorship
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and vicious political attacks, until the outbreak of
World War II
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. The last issue came out in August 1939. In September 1939, after the Soviet annexation of
Lwów
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, Kuryluk deposited his "Signals" archive at the Ossolineum Library (now Stefanyk Library) where it has survived until now. Kuryluk was offered a job at ''
Czerwony Sztandar'' (''Red Flag''), a Soviet-sponsored newspaper, but soon lost it because of the poem "Today Stalin called me" by
Tadeusz Hollender
Tadeusz Hollender (30 May 1910 – 31 May 1943) was a Polish poet, translator and humorist. During World War II, he wrote satirical articles and poems in underground press, for that he was arrested by the German Gestapo and executed in May in the ...
published in ''Signals''.
In 1965, he became the director of the PWN Science Publisher, publishing the
Big PWN Encyclopedia. When the volume with the entry on Nazi Camps was released, a storm broke out. The entry contained the factual information about the Nazi Camps being divided into
concentration camp
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s and
extermination camp
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(for Jews). This division, however, was used as a pretext to attack the Encyclopedia editors. The Party's nationalist faction insinuated that they were all Jews, accused them of "historical treachery that would rob the Polish people of their justified war suffering," and organized street demonstrations to protest "the
Zionist
Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after ''Zion'') is a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is known in Je ...
plot."
Political career
From July 1941 to July 1944, during the Nazi occupation of Lwów, Kuryluk was part of the resistance on both sides of the political divide. As member of PPR (
Polish Workers Party
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), he was responsible for its clandestine
radio station
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and publishing activities. But he was also involved in the news service and publications of the AK (Home Army of the London government in exile).
In August 1944 Kuryluk moved from Lwów to Lublin and began to publish "Odrodzenie" ("The Renaissance"). The magazine was intended as a revival of "Signals" and the first issue commemorated writers and artists killed by the Nazis, publishing a long list of victims, including Bruno Schulz whom the underground tried to save. In 1945 he moved with his magazine to Cracow, and in 1947 to Warsaw. Among the contributors to "Odrodzenie" counted the future Nobel Prize laureates
Czesław Miłosz
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and
Wisława Szymborska
Maria Wisława Anna SzymborskaVioletta Szostagazeta.pl, 9 February 2012. ostęp 2012-02-11 (; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent (n ...
, the novelist
Tadeusz Konwicki
Tadeusz Konwicki (22 June 1926 – 7 January 2015) was a Polish writer and film director, as well as a member of the Polish Language Council.
Life
Konwicki was born in 1926 as the only son of Jadwiga Kieżun and Michał Konwicki in Nowa Wilejka, ...
and the poet
Tadeusz Różewicz
Tadeusz Różewicz (9 October 1921 – 24 April 2014) was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of f ...
.
After the
Kielce pogrom
The Kielce pogrom was an outbreak of violence toward the Jewish community centre's gathering of refugees in the city of Kielce, Poland on 4 July 1946 by Polish soldiers, police officers, and civilians[anti-Semitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism.
Antis ...]
's rise in postwar Poland was addressed by "Odrodzenie". However, with the Soviets firm grip on power and
Stalinism
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on the move, Kuryluk was quickly losing what had remained of his relative independence. In February 1948 he resigned from "Odrodzenie" and worked first in the literary section of the Polish Radio and later in publishing.
Minister of Culture
From April 1956 to April 1958, Kuryluk was Minister of Culture in the government of
Józef Cyrankiewicz
Józef Adam Zygmunt Cyrankiewicz (; 23 April 1911 – 20 January 1989) was a Polish Socialist (PPS) and after 1948 Communist politician. He served as premier of the Polish People's Republic between 1947 and 1952, and again for 16 years between ...
and used his term to liberalize culture, and to open it to the West. The French Institute opened in Warsaw (the first lecturer was
Michel Foucault
Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how ...
), theater and movie stars (
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the Theatre of the U ...
,
Vivien Leigh
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,
Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe (born Gérard Albert Philip, 4 December 1922 – 25 November 1959) was a prominent French actor who appeared in 32 films between 1944 and 1959. Active in both theatre and cinema, he was, until his early death, one of the main ...
,
Yves Montand
Ivo Livi (), better known as Yves Montand (; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), was an Italian-French actor and singer.
Early life
Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer, Ivo held strong ...
) came to visit and to perform; western books and films, avant-garde music and art became available, the first exhibit by
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi- abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced ...
was arranged. New galleries and publications sprung up all over the country and a group of young Wrocław journalists founded, but soon had to stop publishing, "Signals II".
In the spring of 1957 Kuryluk was part of a government delegation headed by the Prime Minister Cyrankiewicz. The delegation was to tour Asia in order to lobby for the enlarged version of the
Rapacki Plan
The Rapacki Plan (pronounced Rapatz-ki) was a proposal presented in a speech by Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki to the United Nations General Assembly on 2 October 1957 as a limited plan for nuclear disarmament and demilitarization in Centra ...
that would suit the Soviets by creating a huge block of non-aligned countries, extending from East Berlin through Poland, Mongolia, India, China, Vietnam, Burma, and Cambodia. The delegation was received by Nehru, Mao Tse-Tung, Hồ Chí Minh and Prince Sihanouk, signed everywhere with meaningless declarations of friendship, and was a complete flop.
Towards the end of 1957 the Party (
PZPR
The Polish United Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza; ), commonly abbreviated to PZPR, was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. The PZPR had led two other lega ...
) began to stop the process of liberalization. The First Secretary
Gomułka was against the generous scholarship program of the Ministry of Culture, sending thousands of Polish intellectuals and artists to the West. When the writer
Marek Hłasko
Marek Hłasko (14 January 1934 – 14 June 1969) was a Polish author and screenwriter.
Life
Hłasko's biography is highly mythologized, and many of the legends about his life he spread himself. Marek was born in Warsaw, as the only son of ...
chose freedom in Paris, this was taken as a pretext to fire Kuryluk as minister of culture, and to get him out of the country as well.
In December 1958, Kuryluk was appointed ambassador of the People's Republic of Poland to
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
. He arrived with his family on 1 January 1959 in Vienna and served until the summer of 1964.
Honors and awards
A
pacifist
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by nature, he stayed away from military action and was particularly active in saving Jews. He hid Peppa Frauenglas and her two sons in his own sublet room. In 2002 he was honored by
Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...
as
Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous Among the Nations ( he, חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ; "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to sav ...
of the World.
Karol Kuryluk
– his activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust
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, at Yad Vashem
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website
References
Picture gallery
Image:ZbarazOgolnyWidokOdStronyZaluza.jpg, A postcard showing a general view of the town of Zbaraż, ca 1925.
Image:ZbarazRynekZbarazMainSquarePostcard.jpg, A postcard showing the main square in Zbaraż, ca. 1925.
Image:AutowzbarazuKarolKurylukOk1930.jpg, Karol Kuryluk, second from the right, with his younger siblings and friends who came to visit him in Zbaraz, 1930.
Image:Odrodzenie1945.jpg, The editorial office of "Odrodzenie", in the middle Maria Dąbrowska, with Karol Kuryluk on her left, and Tadeusz Breza, Cracow, 1946.
Image:KarolKurylukWarsaw1947.jpg, Karol Kuryluk clearing the rubble in postwar Warsaw, 1948.
Image:KarolKurylukWithKruschev.jpg, Polish ambassador to Austria Karol Kuryluk being introduced to Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev s ...
during his meeting with John F. Kennedy in Vienna, 1961.
External links
* Encyklopedia Gazety Wyborczej, 2005
* Ewa Pankiewicz, ''Karol Kuryluk. Biografia polityczna 1910–1967,'' doctoral dissertation, Warsaw University.
* ''Prasa Polska w latach 1939–1945,'' Warsaw, 1980.
* ''Książka dla Karola'' (a collections of memoirs and essays on Karol Kuryluk, and his letters), ed. K. Koźniewski, Warsaw, 1984.
* Tadeusz Breza, "Wspomnienie o Karolu", in ''Nelly,'' Warsaw, 1970
* Halina Górska, ''Chłopcy z ulic miasta,'' with an introduction by Karol Kuryluk, Warsaw, 1956.
* ''Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz,'' edited by J. Ficowski, New York, 1988.
* Czesław Miłosz, ''Zaraz po wojnie, korespondencja z pisarzami 1945–1950,'' Cracow, 1998
* Ewa Kuryluk, ''Ludzie z powietrza—Air People,'' Cracow, 2002
* Ewa Kuryluk, ''Cockroaches and Crocodiles,'' The Moment Magazine, July/August 2008
* ''Frascati,'' Cracow, 2009
* Ewa Kuryluk, ''Kangór z kamerą—Kangaroo with the Camera,'' Cracow and Warsaw, 2009
* Source materials about Karol Kuryluk in Polish, published in Zeszytyhistoryczne, in Acrobat PDF format: https://web.archive.org/web/20120306052421/http://www.marekhlasko.republika.pl/03_artykuly/Kuryluk.pdf
* Ewa Kuryluk,
Goldi,'' Warsaw, 2004www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_kuryluk_ewawww.marekhlasko.republika.pl/03_artykuly/Kuryluk.pdfMuseum of the History of Polish Jews’ web page about Karol Kuryluk
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