Jan Karski’s letters to Aniela Mieczysławska

Jan Karski’s correspondence to Aniela Mieczysławska letters from a period of almost 50 years (December 29, 1944 – September 10, 1993) is a private correspondence between two significant people in the recent history of our country, especially the Polish state in exile. These private letters are not devoid of the political views of the authors and highly respected persons both in the Polish community in the United States and in Great Britain. Jan Karski (1914–2000) is known as a courier of the authorities of the Polish underground state to the Polish government in exile in London and a confidant of the Jewish leaders, who was the first to bring an eyewitness testimony to the extermination of Jews in German camps in Poland to the polish west ally. Aniela Mieczysławska (1910–1998), by birth Lillpop, primo voto Mieczysławska, secundo voto Raczyńska. A¡er break out of the war in 1939, she le¡ with her husband Witold (1907–1991), a diplomat, to Bucharest. In 1941, it reached via France and Portugal the Unites States and was in the service of the Polish government. A¡er the death of the second wife, Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891–1993) in 1962 she moved from USA to London (U.K.) and for almost 30 years she take care of Ambassador Raczyński, she became his third wife in 1991. The letters cover the period of the final phase of World War II and its easily predictable end, especially the consequences it brought for Poland. The correspondence ends with the death of Edward B. Raczyński, President of the Republic of Poland in exile, and Pola Nireńska – Jan Karskis wife