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Difficult Munich years

20-01-2023 Katarzyna Pieczuro - Mažeikienė

Józef Mackiewicz, together with his wife Barbara Toporska, spent the last thirty years of his life in Munich and wrote…

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The guiding credo of Józef Mackiewicz

10-01-2023 Katarzyna Pieczuro - Mažeikienė

Throughout most of his life, Józef Mackiewicz consistently pursued his literary program. When asked about his guiding credo a few…

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‘Our Vilnius’ – meaning whose?

23-12-2022 Aneta Kurowska

Historically, it so happened that in different periods Vilnius was under different powers: German, Soviet, Polish, Lithuanian. Today, in 2022,…

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Alone

20-12-2022 Aneta Kurowska

Józef Mackiewicz was not lonely among people, he had his wife next to him, quite a large group of friends…

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Don’t close your eyes to the truth

02-12-2022 Aneta Kurowska

Questioning today the construction of a new socialism in a country after the end of World War II is not…

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Józef Mackiewicz about the Warsaw Uprising

16-11-2022 Agnieszka Masalitie

Józef Mackiewicz did not condemn the decision to start the Warsaw Uprising. He believed that the Polish government-in-exile should use…

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The whole and the individual in the writing of Józef Mackiewicz

21-10-2022 Agnieszka Masalitie

In his works, Józef Mackiewicz was fascinated primarily with the fate of an individual. The life of an individual is…

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A story that touches

05-10-2022 Aneta Kurowska

Writing documentary, biographical and historical books is not the obvious and easy thing to do. A history book should be…

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Bird lover

21-09-2022 Katarzyna Pieczuro - Mažeikienė

Józef Mackiewicz was a naturalist by passion from childhood, he liked nature and animals, but above all he liked birds.

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Vilnius in the lead role – a crime story with a motive

07-09-2022 Łukasz Czunkiewicz

Sherlock Holmes in Great Britain, Nat Pinkerton in America and in Vilnius, Commissioner Mańkowski. “Vilnius crime novel” written in 1933…