Letters of Wacław Olszewicz (1888-1974) to his daughter and their information potential in biographical research
Journal Title: Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi - Year 2018, Vol 12, Issue 0
Abstract
The article characterizes the informative potential of private correspondence from Wacław Olszewicz (who was a pre-war ministerial clerk, lawyer, economist, diplomat and also a librarian, bibliophile, Polish culture historian and the author of a few dozen articles on bibliology and touring) written from Lviv to his daughter. The analyzed collection consists of 245 letters and postcards sent to his daughter Hanna Szanecka in years 1945-1974. Their lecture reveals information about hte family and the social community of the author, including representatives of the Polish intelligentsia nad their families, which were forced to emigrate by the war. They often were not allowed to come back to the Fatherland in the post-war reality, which was related to difficult life choices.
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Robert Kotowski
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- DOI 10.33077/zbkh.2018.12.kotowski
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