Jerzy Giedroyc

The Archives of the Literary Institute in Paris have been entered into the international UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.

Agnieszka Bielawska reports

The Polish  Literary Institute was the publishing house that produced the journal Kultura, and was a center for emigrants from Central and Eastern European countries.It was founded by Jerzy Giedroyc, outstanding intellectual, who died in Paris in 2000.

The Archives of the Literary Institute comprise materials which were created and collected during its activity in the years 1946-2000. It includes workks published by the Institute and the correspondence of Jerzy Giedroyc with some of the most outstanding intellectualls, writers and politicians from western European countries and dissidents from the Sovet ruled zone, to  mention but Henry Kissinger, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Czeslaw Milosz, Albert Camus.
Also on the World Memory Register this year two other Polish archives have been inscribed , the Radziwill Archive and Nieswieski Library.

The international Memory of the World Register collects objects of documentary heritage of particular world value. It contains 193 entries .Poland has nine inscriptions, among them Frederic Chopin's manuscripts or the plates with the demands of Solidarity workers from the Gdansk strike of 1980.

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