Janusz Kurtyka becomes the patron of the roundabout in Krakow
Photo PAP / Łukasz Gągulski
I also have information about Janusz Kurtyce, who has set goals for the Institute of National Remembrance that he wants to represent, who has an institution and an institution of learning about the history of the Polish place in the 20th century, in Poland and abroad
– He said. He reminded that in the public space there are not only places, but an expression of national tension towards their values and an indication of those that have been replaced by this place.
Everyone who enters the roundabout will meet a man who was served by the services of the ethos of the Republic of Poland and the work ethos for Poland
– project of the President of the Institute of National Remembrance.
The Mayor of Krakow, Jacek Majchrowski, said that there are different moments in our history: heroic and embarrassing.
Janusz Kurtyka was a historian. Medievalist and expert in modern times
Majchrowski said, recalling that Kurtyka was the author of the first biography of Leopold Okulicki, which was published in Poland.
All the teaching that fights to fight is, the transmission of the generations was a true master. He always did. He also died in connection with the memory one
– The president worked, thanking the councilors for winning the name of the roundabout. With this initiative, a new councilor, Adam Kalita.
Deputy Prime Minister Ryszard Pagacz, water that Janusz Kurtyce.
Zuzanna Kurtyka – widow of the president of the Institute of National Remembrance – thanked for remembrance of her husband.
My husband always. Repeatedly, the thought of independence was written to be the foundation of thinking about the state
– She emphasized that Krakow was his little homeland, he always returned to it and it was him that he devoted his first historical study and books to.
That is why it is so important that Krakow remembers about him
She added, thanking everyone who contributed to it.
Janusz Kurtyka’s son Paweł Kurtyka, president of the Janusz Kurtyka, said that it aims to commemorate the patron and to care for, his thoughts were thoughtful, hence the initiative to appoint authors and historians.
We have a Tuesday function of the Institute of National Remembrance. At the Museum of the Home Army Kur, a documentary about Janusz “Trwajcie!” in dir. Alina Czerniakowska.
Janusz Kurtyka was born on August 13, 1960 in Krakow. He grew up in Nowa Huta, where he finished school and high school. During the training, she established first contacts with the Student Solidarity Committee. In 1980 he became involved in the independent student movement. He was a member of the Founding Committee of the Independent Students’ Union of Students, where he studied playing lecture.
After studying Work History at the Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1995, he defended his doctoral dissertation in the field of humanities, and in 2000, the degree of habilitated doctor. In the history of history, he has spanned the following periods: the Middle Ages and the history of the fascinating history of Poland. From 1994 he was the editor-in-chief of “Zeszyty Historyczne WiN” – a scientific journal devoted to the history of war and the post-war independence underground. In 2003 he was elected President of the Main Board of the “Freedom and Independence” Association. She performed this game until her death.
In the years 2000-05 he was the director of the Krakow branch of the Institute of National Remembrance in Krakow, and from 2005 to 2010 the president of the Institute of National Remembrance. Janusz Kurtyce was interested in the popularity of the popular history of the Polish Underground State as a failure of the phenomenon of World War II and the presentation of ‘Solidarity’ – a mass social struggle movement. They were a supporter of the de-communization of street names in Poland. He sought to commemorate the Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism and Communism and the National Day of the Cursed Soldiers.
He died in the catastrophe on April 10, 2010, on his way to the celebrations commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. He is buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków.