Plaque is affixed to the house at Maisons-Laffitte announcing that Józef Czapski
“painter, humanist and witness of Katyń” lived here.
POLAND
The Kultura Archive series continues with the collected correspondence between Jerzy Giedroyc and Konstanty Jeleński.
Ewa Berberiusz publishes Książę z Maisons-Laffitte (The Prince from Maisons-Laffitte) about Jerzy Giedroyc. The Society for the Protection of the Archives of the Literary Institute in Paris is founded in Warsaw.
Aleksander Kwaśniewski wins the Polish presidential election.
WORLD
Father Józef Maria Bocheński, Dominican, philosopher, sovietologist, and staunch associate of Kultura, dies in Freiburg.
US space shuttle docks with Russian space station Mir for the first time.
