The most interesting event should be the premiere of a comic strip about Nowak-Jeziorański’s missions from Poland to Great Britain. Perfectly planned and requiring enormous courage and determination, the Courier’s travels through German-occupied Europe had some unexpected moments. Escaping from Poland after the disaster of the Warsaw Uprising, Nowak-Jeziorański was to cover a part of the route near the German-Swiss border by bicycle – this is what the organisers of the escape assumed, but they did not know that the Courier could not ride a bicycle.
The premiere of a biography of Nowak-Jeziorański can also turn out to be an interesting event. Mateusz Palka and Mariusz Urbanek, the author of excellent books on persons such as Leopold Tyrmand or Władysław Broniewski, have collected accounts, reminiscences and anecdotes of one hundred persons who knew the head of the Polish section of RFE personally.
On Friday the 3rd of October, at 9 a.m., the whole-day popular-science conference “Jan Nowak-Jeziorański. Mission: Poland” will begin. Such is also the title of an open-air exhibition presenting the biography and achievements of the Polish politician in the Market Square and in the Baroque Garden near Ossolineum.
The planned celebration program includes also a series of exhibitions and presentations. In Ossolineum, drawings from the collection of Jan and Jadwiga Nowak-Jeziorańscy will be shown, and in the House under the Golden Sun, there will be an opportunity to watch an exhibition consisting of collections gathered by Nowak-Jeziorański (he was also a collector of polonica) and pieces of furniture from his apartment until December.
The celebrations of the jubilee are organised by the Ossoliński National Institute, to which the Courier from Warsaw bequeathed his collection and archives.
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