🔍 MăreșteIn memoriam
Karol Kuryluk (27 October 1910 – 9 December 1967) was a Polish journalist, editor, activist, politician and diplomat. In 2002, he was honored by Yad Vashem for saving Jews in the Holocaust.
Karol Kuryluk a adăugat o fotografie
acum 10 ore
Karol Kuryluk (27 October 1910 – 9 December 1967) was a Polish journalist, editor, activist, politician and diplomat. In 2002, he was honored by Yad Vashem for saving Jews in the Holocaust.
Karol Kuryluk a adăugat o fotografie
acum 10 ore
Biography Kuryluk was born on 27 October 1910 in Zbaraż (Zbarazh), a small town in Galicia, the eastern province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (after World War I part of Poland, today in Ukraine), and died in Budapest. 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 in his native town, Kuryluk received a small scholarship to study Polish language at the University of Lviv 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 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 halls, and…
Karol Kuryluk a adăugat o fotografie
acum 10 ore
Literary career In 1933, Kuryluk founded the cultural periodical Sygnały (Signals Magazine) with the poet Tadeusz Hollender and became its editor-in-chief. He called upon the young literary talent in the city (Erwin Axer, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Czesław Miłosz, Mirosław Żuławski), won over established writers from all over the country (Maria Dąbrowska, Bruno Schulz, Leopold Staff, Andrzej Strug, Julian Tuwim), and published translations of writings by foreign authors (Appolinaire, Henri Barbusse, André Malraux, Carl von Ossietzky, Bertrand Russell, Upton Sinclair, Paul Valéry). Special issues were dedicated to Jewish, Ukrainian and Belarusian culture, and to the city of Lwów. Signals promoted the work of contemporary Polish artists (Henryk Gotlib, Bruno Schulz, Zygmunt Waliszewski) and avant-garde photographers (Otto Hahn, Mieczysław Szczuka), and popularized modern European art (van Gogh, Gauguin, Archipenko, Max Ernst). A group of gifted graphic artists and caricaturists (K. Baraniecki, F. Kleinmann, Eryk Lipiński, Franciszek Parecki) collaborated with the magazine, which was renowned 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) raided the editorial office and Kuryluk…
Karol Kuryluk a adăugat o fotografie
acum 10 ore
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), he was responsible for its clandestine radio station 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 and Wisława Szymborska, the novelist Tadeusz Konwicki and the poet Tadeusz Różewicz. After the Kielce pogrom in July 1946, the taboo topic of anti-Semitism's rise in postwar Poland was addressed by "Odrodzenie". However, with the Soviet's firm grip on power and Stalinism on the move, Kuryluk was quickly losing what had remained of his…
Karol Kuryluk a adăugat o fotografie
acum 10 ore
Minister of Culture From April 1956 to April 1958, Kuryluk was Minister of Culture in the government of Józef Cyrankiewicz 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), theater and movie stars (Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Gérard Philipe, Yves Montand) came to visit and to perform; western books and films, avant-garde music and art became available, the first exhibit by Henry Moore 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 to lobby for the enlarged version of the Rapacki Plan 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…
Karol Kuryluk a lăsat un gând
acum 10 ore
Honors and awards A pacifist innately, 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 as Righteous Among the Nations of the World.
Karol Kuryluk a lăsat un gând
acum 10 ore
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
Karol Kuryluk a lăsat un gând
acum 10 ore
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
Karol Kuryluk a lăsat un gând
acum 10 ore
www.sowa.website.pl/cmentarium/.../spisPowazkiW.html Museum of the History of Polish Jews’ web page about Karol Kuryluk Archived 27 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine