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A., Mrs. (née K. T.), and her family, 193 Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, Abrasimov, Piotr Andreevich, Soviet diplomat, British ﬁeld marshal and earl, 69, 89 282 Alexiewicz, Andrzej, Polish mathematician, Acheson, Dean, American politician, 117 55, 59 Ackermann, Anton, East German politician, Alexits, Gyorgy,˝ Hungarian mathematician, 152 103, 112, 176 Adams, Walter Sydney, American astronomer, Alliluyeva, Nadezhda, Stalin’s second wife, 69 183 Adamska, Krystyna (Krysia), daughter of Altendorf, an acquaintance of the author, 1 Stanisław, 3 Altschüler-Adamski, a New York acquaintance, Adamski, Stanisław, a schoolfriend of the 67 author, 3, 40, 64 Ambrose, Warren A., American Adenauer, Konrad Hermann Joseph, West mathematician, 78, 79 German politician, 191, 228, 260, Ambroses, the family of Warren, 79 261 Anders, Władysław, Polish general, 3, 236 Adjoubei, Alekse˘ı, Soviet newspaper editor, Anderson, an American physicist, UNRRA 306 representative, 17, 21, 22 Adjoubei, Rada, a daughter of Khrushchov and Andrzejewski, Jerzy, Polish writer, 223 wife of Alekse˘ı, 306 Andrzejewski, Marcin, son of Jerzy, 223 Adolf, brother of Stasia Blumenfeld, 5 Andrzejewskis, the family of Jerzy, 223 Aesop, ancient Greek fabulist, 51 Anisimov, a putative Soviet diplomat, 282 Afek, a lottery ofﬁcial, 270 Antonov, Alekse˘ı Innokentievich, Soviet Agnew, Ralph Palmer, American military leader, 222 mathematician, 71 Aristov, Averki˘ı Borisovich, Soviet politician Ahrensburg, a Chicago engineer with General and diplomat, 282 Electric, 75 Arnold, Stanisław, Polish historian, 27, 48 Akhmatova, Anna, Russian poet, 51, 52 Aleksander II, tsar of Russia, 205 B., a Polish engineer, 107 Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich, Soviet B., an engineer and distant relative of Adolf mathematician, 104, 161 Szmosz, 263 Aleksandrowicz, Julian, Polish medical B., Dr. J., an acquaintance of the author, 300 specialist, 173, 219 B., Fredek, an acquaintance of the author, 184 Alexander the Great, Macedonian conqueror, B., Zosia, an acquaintance of the author, 189 367 Bader, Karol, Polish diplomat, 5

Baer, a Polish microbiologist, 168, 216 Bernadotte, Folke, Count of Wisborg, Swedish Bain, Scottish father-in-law of Zbigniew diplomat, 221 Łomnicki, 243 Bernstein, Felix, German-Jewish Balzan, Angela Lina, daughter of Eugenio, 306 mathematician, 71 Balzan, Eugenio, Italian newspaper magnate Bevin, Ernest, British labour politician, 26 and philanthropist, 306 Bharucha-Reid, Albert Turner, African- Banach, Stefan Jr., son of Banach, 180 American probabilist, 249 Banach, Stefan, illustrious Polish Bialoguski, Michael, Ukrainian-born Polish- mathematician, 45, 52, 53, Australian physician and secret 56, 59, 122, 180, 208 agent, 234 Banachiewicz, Tadeusz, Polish astronomer and Bidault, Georges, French politician, 154 mathematician, 12 Bienkowski,´ Władysław, Polish communist Banachowa, Łucja, wife of Banach, 44, 59, 180 activist, 28, 39, 250 Banas,´ Tadeusz, Polish cultural activist, 240 Biernacki, Mieczysław, Polish mathematician Banczyk,´ Stanisław, Polish politician, 37 and chemist, 55, 59, 60 Baranowski, Tadeusz, Polish biochemist and Bierut, Bolesław, Polish communist political medical professor, 9, 21, 22, 181 leader, 115, 119, 122, 151, 159, 164, Baranski,´ Rajmund, Polish politician, 283 170, 178, 183, 191, 192, 203, 279, Barghoorn, Frederick, Yale sociology 281, 314, 332 professor, 318, 319 Birnbaum, Zygmunt, Polish-American Bartel, Kazimierz Władysław, Polish mathematician, 23, 25, 171 mathematician and politician, 39, Bismarck, Otto von, Prussian chancellor, 254 254, 335 Bismarck, Philipp von, German politician, Bartłomiej of Jasło, a 14th century university nephew of Otto, 349 rector, 313, 350 Blackwell, David Harold, African-American Barycz, Henryk Michał, Polish historian and mathematician and statistician, 71, archivist, 313 78, 81, 104 Barycz, Mrs., wife of Barycz, 313 Bloch, Maurycy (Morcio, Morys),´ a fellow Battek, Jerzy, Polish mathematician, 341 student of the author’s daughter, 23, Batteman, Didi, a Dutch-American secretary, 53, 56–58, 62, 78, 104 287 Blumenfeld (assumed name Noga), Jan, son of Bayes, Thomas, English mathematician, 58, Izydor, 5, 49 149 Blumenfeld, Izydor, a plant manager, friend of Beck, Dr., a UNRRA representative, 40 the Steinhauses, 5 Beck, Józef, Polish politician and army ofﬁcer, Blumenfeld, Stanisława (Stasia), wife of 279 Izydor, 5, 240, 241, 323 B˛eczkowski, Zygmunt, an engineer in Blumenfelds, the family of Izydor, 44 Wrocław, 48 Bobranski,´ Bogusław, Polish chemist, 181 Ben Bella, Ahmed, Algerian president, 351 Bobrowski, Czesław, Polish economist, Ben-Gurion, David, Polish-born Israeli 118 politician, 258, 266 Bodenheim, Maxwell, American poet and Ben-Uri, an Israeli mathematician, 167 novelist, 166 Beneš, Edvard, Czechoslovak political leader, Bogdanowicz, a Polish physicist, 199 92, 97 Bois-Reymond, Emil du, German physician Bergaryn, a Warsaw Jew, 85 and physiologist, 264 Bergman, Stefan, Polish-American Bois-Reymond, Paul du, German mathematician, 78, 79 mathematician, 264 Beria, Lavrenti˘ı Pavlovich, Georgian-born Bojarski, a Polish engineer, 340, 341 Soviet politician, 116, 143, 155, Boltzmann, Ludwig, Austrian physicist and 157, 158, 160, 165, 178, 185, 189, philosopher, 36 211, 214 Bomba, owner of a guest house, 124 Berliner, an American chemist, 286 Borejsza, Jerzy (born Benjamin Goldberg), Berman, Jakub, Polish politician, 178, 200, Polish-Jewish writer and communist 231 activist, 101, 183, 201 Index of Names 381

Bór-Komorowski, Count Tadeusz, Polish Bürger, Gottfried August, German poet, 304 general, 369 Buridan, Jean, French priest and scientist, 242 Borkowska, Countess, wife of the Borkowski Burkhardt, Felix, German mathematician, 191 in Krynica, 126 Burton, Richard, British explorer, soldier, Borkowski, Piotr, an acquaintance of the writer, etc., 272 author, 14 Bush, Vannevar, American engineer and Borkowski, Polish lawyer and owner of a guest science administrator, 69 house in Krynica, 126 Bychowski, a Czech mathematician, 103 Borowicz (or Horowicz), Alfred (Fredek), Byrnes, James Francis, American politician, brother of Olga Pamm, 98 45, 48 Borsuk, Karol (Kazimierz), Polish mathematician, 62, 97, 161, 171 Bortnowska, Halina, Polish philosopher, C., Professor, a colleague of the author, journalist, and human rights activist, 142 325 Caesar, Gaius Julius, Roman military and Boumedienne, Houari, Algerian colonel, 351 political leader, 257, 360 Boy-Zele˙ nski,´ Tadeusz, prominent Polish Cantor, Georg, German-Jewish mathematician, writer, translator, and poet, 39, 246, 71 335 Carroll, Lewis (actually Charles Lutwidge Brach, Miss, a Polish schoolteacher, 354 Dodgson), English logician, Brandt, Willy, German politician, 365 mathematician, and writer, 265 Bratter, a Lwów doctor, 41 Carter, James Earl (Jimmy), American farmer Brauchitsch, Walther von, German ﬁeld and politician, 301 marshal, 315 Casimir II the Just, Polish duke, 207 Brecht, Bertolt, German Marxist poet and Casimir the Great, last Polish king of the Piast playwright, 101 dynasty, 149, 207 Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich, Soviet politician, 168, Castro, Fidel, Cuban communist revolutionary 337, 342, 346, 354, 366, 372 and dictator, 291, 364 Briand, Aristide, French politician, 108 Catherine the Great, empress of Russia, 39, Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, French lawyer 267 and politician, epicure, 43 Ceau¸sescu, Nicolae, Romanian communist Broniewski, Władysław, Polish poet, 163 politician, 365 Bronk, Detlev Wulf, American biophysicist Cech,ˇ Eduard, Czech mathematician, 103 and administrator, 286, 287 Cedergren, Mrs. (née Countess Elsa Bronks, the family of Detlev Wulf, 286 Bernadotte), a sister of Count Folke Bross, Wiktor, Polish surgeon and professor in Bernadotte, 221 Wrocław, 98, 361 Césaire, Aimé Fernand David, poet, writer, and Broszkiewicz, Jerzy, Polish writer, 14 politician from Martinique, 102 Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan, Dutch Cézanne, Paul, French painter, 65 mathematician and philosopher, 264 Chadyk, a Kraków radiologist, 6 Bruller, Jean Marcel (penname Vercors), Chambers, Whittaker, American former French writer, 193 communist and accuser of Hiss, Brunowa, a representative of a Polish 117 government ministry, 65 Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, Indian-born Bucholski, a Polish mathematician, 202 American astrophysicist, 220 Buddensieg, Frau, wife of Hermann, 241 Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, 185 Buddensieg, Hermann Robert Karl, German Chen-pin, a Chinese graduate student of the writer, polonist, 241 author, 243, 316, 337 Bukharin, Nikola˘ı Ivanovich, Russian Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese political and Bolshevik revolutionary, 155, 346 military leader, 5, 106, 109, 112, Bulanda, Edmund Jan, Polish archaeologist, 36 114, 154 Bulganin, Nikola˘ı Aleksandrovich, Soviet Chlebowska, a masseuse, 188 politician, 158, 185, 189, 199, 200, Choibalsan, Khorloogiin, Mongolian general 203, 205 and political leader, 155 382 Index of Names

Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek (Frédéric Curtis, John Hampton, a statistician with the François), Polish composer and US National Bureau of Standards, virtuoso pianist, 80, 186, 266 71, 72 Choquet, Gustave, French mathematician, 42, Cwikli´ nski,´ Jan, Polish ship’s captain, 159 52, 53, 59, 60, 62 Cynkin, Tadeusz, a Polish colonel, 316 Chudek, a Czechoslovak diplomat, 118 Cyrankiewicz, Józef, Polish communist Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 313 politician, 165, 204, 205, 211, 229, Churchill, Sir Winston, British politician, 14, 231, 240, 307, 326, 328, 329, 340, 31, 95, 154, 157, 169, 188, 313, 345 342, 353, 375 Chwistek, Leon, Polish painter and Cz., a Polish geographer, 123 mathematician, a brother-in-law of Czekanowski, Jan, Polish anthropologist and the author, 187 statistician, 32, 127, 248, 355, 368 Chylinski,´ a US consulate official in Warsaw, Czesówna, Nina, a resident of Berdechów, 6 64, 281 Czetwertynska,´ an official of the Belgian Cieluch, Lola, a daughter of Cieluch Senior legation in Poland, 251 (see Vol ume 1), 26 Czetwertynski-´ Swiatopełk,´ a professor and Cieluch, Tadeusz, a son of Cieluch Senior (see member of an aristocratic Polish Volume 1), 354 family, 313 Cieluch, Zofia (Zosia), a daughter of Cieluch Czy˙zewski, Julian, Polish geographer, 62, 172, Senior (see Vol ume 1), 26 192 Cieszynski,´ Antoni, Polish physician, surgeon, and stomatologist, 39, 42 Cieszynski,´ son of Antoni, 42, 48 D., Mrs., an acquaintance of the author, 200 Clark, Mark Wayne, American general, D˛abrowska, a Jasło acquaintance of 146 Swiderska’s´ mother, General Clebsch, Rudolf Friedrich Alfred, German D˛abrowski’s widow, 263 mathematician, 249 D˛abrowska, Maria, Polish writer and human Clementis, Vladimir, Slovak communist rights activist, 98, 99, 102, 326, 336, politician, 153 339 Condon, Edward Uhler, American physicist, D˛abrowski, General Jarosław, Polish 72 commander in the Paris Commune, Conrad, Joseph, Polish-born English novelist, 263 129, 256 Dalai Lama, chief guru of Tibetan buddhism, Corday, Charlotte, Marat’s assassin, 110 291 Corvinus, Matthias, king of Hungary and Dale, Sir Henry, British scientist, 55 Croatia, 362 Daniels, Mark, British physiologist, 36, 37, 49 Coty, René Jules Gustave, French politician, d’Annunzio, Gabriele, Italian poet and 165, 233 novelist, 162 Courant, Nina, Richard’s wife, daughter of Dante Alighieri, illustrious Italian poet, 79 Runge, 264 Darboux, Gaston, French mathematician, 358 Courant, Richard, German-American Daub, book-buyer for Stechert & Co., 80 mathematician, 264, 265 Davenport, Harold, British number theorist, Cowles, Alfred, American businessman and 312 economist, 75 Davydov, Aleksandr Sergeevich, Coxeter, Harold Scott MacDonald, English- Ukrainian/Soviet physicist, Canadian geometer, 78 134 Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford, British Dawidowa (née Weiss), a cousin of the author, ambassador to the USSR, labour 94 politician, 232 Dawidowicz, Stanisław, husband of Alina Crowther, James Gerald, British journalist and Dawidowiczowa (see Vol ume 1), science populariser, 130 258 Curie-Skłodowska, Marie, Polish-French Dawidówna, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Dawidowa, physicist and chemist, 108 94 Index of Names 383

De Morgan, Augustus, English mathematician, Drzymała, Michał, Polish peasant become folk 280 hero, 253 Debré, Michel, French politician, 233 Dubcek,ˇ Alexander, Czechoslovak politician, D˛ebski, an official in the Polish Department of 373, 376 Education, 31 Duclos, Jacques, French Stalinist politician, Dejmek, Kazimierz, Polish stage director, 374 146 Dekierkunst, a member of Hirszfeld’s institute, Duda, Roman, Polish mathematician, 9, 11, 16, 216 161, 180, 258, 335 Dembowski, Jan Bohdan, Polish biologist, 23, Dudziks, the family of Dudzik, a neighbor in 137, 182, 209 Berdechów (see Volume 1), 354 Demko, Katarzyna, Polish teacher of English, Dumas, Mlle, daughter of Mme Dumas, 82 261 Dumas, Mme, a Grenoble landlady, 10, 30, 82 Denisot, a mathematician, 55 Duval, a son of Mania Michałkówna, 33 Denjoy, Arnaud, French mathematician, 52, 53 Dworakowski, Władysław, Polish politician, Dickens, Charles, English novelist, 13, 360 178 Dietrich, an engineer, 179 Dykiert, a Polish engineer, 258 Dietzius, Aleksander, Polish engineer, 53 Dywan, Stanisław, an inhabitant of Stró˙ze, Dietzius, daughter of Aleksander, 53 135, 275 Dimitrov, Georgi (or Georgi Dimitrov Dzerzhinski˘ı, Feliks Edmundovich, Mikhaylov), Bulgarian communist Belorussian director of OGPU, 311 politician, 100, 155 Dzhan Dzo-i, a Chinese graduate student of the Dionysius II, Syracusan tyrant, 371 author, 316 Dirichlet, Johann P. G. Lejeune, German Dzhugashvili, Vasili˘ı Iosifovich, Stalin’s son mathematician, 249 by his second wife, 183 Dittersdorf, Anita, a niece of the author’s wife, Dzhugashvili, Yakov Iosifovich, Stalin’s son 10, 26, 29, 30, 62, 73, 82, 212 by his first wife, 183 Dittersdorf, Helena (née Szmoszówna), sister Dzieduszyckis, Wrocław acquaintances of the of the author’s wife, 10 author, 179 Dittersdorf, Leon, a brother-in-law of the Dziedzianowiczówna, Wanda, an acquaintance author’s wife, Helena’s husband, 10, of the author, 125, 282 82 Dziedzic, Jan, Polish journalist, 216 Dixon, Jeremiah, English surveyor, 81 Dziewulska, a niece of Wacław, 172 Dobrowolski, Antoni Bolesław, Polish Dziewulska, Mrs., daughter of Stefan geophysicist and explorer, 49 Dziewulski, 243 Dobrzaniecki, Władysław, Lwów surgeon, Dziewulski brothers, Wacław and Władysław, 39 187 Dobrzanski,´ Jan, an acquaintance of the author, Dziewulski, Stefan, Polish lawyer and 49 economist, brother of Wacław and Dodds, Harold Willis, president of Princeton Władysław, 243, 244 University, 69 Dziewulski, Wacław, Polish physicist, 172, 243 Domann, a Polish engineer, 95, 163 Dziewulski, Władysław, Polish astronomer and Doroszewski, Witold Jan, Polish linguist, 331 mathematician, 243 Dostoevski˘ı, Fyodor Mikhailovich, Russian writer, 110 Douglas, George Norman, British writer, 79 Eaton, Cyrus Stephen, Canadian-born Douglas-Home, Alec, British politician, 314 American banker and businessman, Dowling, Captain, an official in the US 239 Department of the Navy, 73 Eddington, Sir Arthur, British physicist, 226 Drayer, Captain, an official in the US Eden, Robert Anthony, British politician, 185, Department of the Navy, 73 188, 203 Drewnowski, Jan, Polish economist, 49 Egerváry, Jeno,˝ Hungarian mathematician, Drobner, Bolesław, mayor of Wrocław, 103 120, 162 Drobot, Stefan, Polish mathematician, 144, Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigorievich, Soviet writer, 201, 216, 232, 253 101, 306, 318 384 Index of Names

Eichmann, Adolf Otto, German SS- Fermi, Enrico, Italian physicist, 74, 209 Obersturmbannführer, 276, Finkelstein, a student of the author in Wrocław, 281 94 Eilenberg, Samuel, Polish-American Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer, English statistician mathematician, 62, 70, 71, 78, 81 and geneticist, 149 Einstein, Albert, illustrious German-American Fisz, Marek, Polish probabilist and statistician, physicist, 69, 209, 226 171, 176 Eisenhower, Dwight D., American military and Flaubert, Gustave, French novelist, 187 political leader, 69, 93, 150, 152, Fleck, Ludwik, Polish doctor and biologist, 5, 154, 156, 160, 183, 185, 231, 245, 9, 18, 25, 27, 28, 57, 167, 215, 226 265, 267 Fleming, Sir Alexander, Scottish Elert, Alfred J., a Warsaw tailor, 334 pharmacologist, 23, 132 Elfving, Erik Gustav, Finnish mathematician Florek, Kazimierz, Polish mathematician, 122, and statistician, 176 127 Eliot, T. S., American-British poet, 70 Florian, patron saint of Linz, 356 Elisabeth of Bavaria, consort of King Albert I Forrestal, James Vincent, American politician, of Belgium, 186 93 Elizabeth II, queen of the British Fortet, Robert, French mathematician, 176 Commonwealth, 159 Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon, French physicist, Elmer, Benedykt, a Polish diplomat, 97 55 Emelianova, Irina, daughter of Ivinskaya, 280 Fowler, William Alfred, American nuclear Engels, Friedrich, German social scientist and physicist, 220 political theorist, 138, 240 Franco, Francisco, Spanish general and Erdos,˝ Paul, Hungarian mathematician, 74, 234 dictator, 183 Erhard, Ludwig, West German politician, 349 Frank, Annelies Marie (Anne), young Ernst (Eryan), Jan, Polish geographer and stage German-born wartime diarist, Nazi performer, 168 victim, 257 Ernst, Zofia (née Kostanecka), an acquaintance Frank, Jacob, a Jewish messianist, 153 of Lidka and wife of Jan Ernst, 168 Frank, Otto Heinrich, German-born Dutch Estreicher, Karol Jr., Polish art historian, 326, businessman, father of Anne, 257 329, 375 Franz Joseph I, Austrian emperor, 126 Fréchet, Maurice, French mathematician, 176 Frederick the Great, Prussian king, 254 F., Mr. and Mrs., a couple encountered in Fredericks, an official of the US Patents Office, Krynica, 139, 140 72 F., Stanisław (Staszek), an engineer, 178 Freisler, Roland, Nazi judge, 227 Faber, Władysław (Władek), a former servant Friedman, Milton, American economist, 74, 75 of the Steinhauses, 29 Friedrich, Archduke, Duke of Teschen, Fadeyev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, Soviet member of the House of Habsburg, writer, 102 279 Fajanses, the family of Kazimierz Fajans (see Fuad I, king of Egypt, 141 Volume 1), 286 Fuad II, last king of Egypt, 141 Falski, Marian, a Polish academic, 329 Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, German-British Farouk I, king of Egypt, 141 physicist and atomic spy, 239 Fast, Henryk, Polish-American mathematician, Fulinska,´ wife of Benedykt, 44 94 Fulinski,´ Benedykt, Polish biologist, 44 Faure, Edgar, French politician and historian, 185 Fawzi, Mahmoud, Egyptian diplomat and G., an assistant of the author, 252 politician, 210 G., Dr., an acquaintance of the author, 127 Fejgin, Mieczysław, Polish internist, 333 G., Mr., and his Ukrainian wife, 255 Feller, William, Croatian-American probabilist, G., Mr. B., an acquaintance of the author, 329 10, 12, 13, 25, 36, 46, 56, 62, 70–72, G., Mr., representative of Chelsea Publishing 77, 78, 149 Co. in New York, 80 Index of Names 385

G., Willi von, husband of the author’s cousin Gleichgewicht, Bolesław, Polish Hedi W., 83 mathematician, Wrocław Gaillard, Félix d’Aimé, French politician, 233 professor, 232, 262, 329 Gałczynski,´ Konstanty Ildefons, Polish poet, Glushchenko, Ivan E., Soviet biologist, 104 165 Gnedenko, Boris Vladimirovich, Soviet Galgótzy, Anton von, a general in the Imperial mathematician, 44, 59, 172, 176, Austrian Army, 276 177, 233, 236, 240 Gamski, Mieczysław, Polish physician and Gödel, Kurt, Austrian-American logician and medical professor, 57 mathematician, 244 Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, preeminent Godlewicz, Marian, a Lublin chemist, 124 leader of the Indian independence Godlewski, Aleksander Lech, Polish movement, 291 anthropologist, 343 Garber (alias Baltch), Joy Ann, Soviet spy of Goebbels, Joseph, German politician, 89 Polish origin, wife of Alexander Goetel, Walery, Polish geologist, 313 Sokolov, 339 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, illustrious Garbinski,´ Tadeusz, a Wrocław professor of German poet, 8, 52, 305 medicine, 327, 328, 332, 336 Goetz, Abraham, Polish-American Garlicka, Wanda (née Cieluch), a daughter of mathematician, 94 Cieluch Senior (see Vol ume 1), 1, 26 Gofron, a German technician, 33 Garwolinska´ (née Ostaszewska), an Golanski,´ Henryk, Polish engineer and acquaintance from Iwonicz, 45 politician, 272 Gaugler, Kurt, director of an Interlaken Gold, Harry, American chemist and atomic boarding-school, friend of Vincenz, spy, 239 333 Goldschlag, Franciszek, a former Lwów Gaulle, Charles de, French general and dermatologist, 234 political leader, 137, 154, 185, 204, Gombrowicz, Witold Marian, Polish novelist, 232, 233, 266, 267, 271, 303, 345, 317 354 Gomułka, Władysław, Polish politician, 42, Gauss, Carl Friedrich, illustrious German 100, 103, 116, 133, 138, 139, 156, mathematician, 25 178, 182, 183, 192, 203, 206, 210, Gdula, a Wrocław master’s student, 315 211, 213, 215, 221, 231, 243, 250, Gede, Tadeusz, Polish politician, 249 263, 277, 281, 307, 310, 314, 318, Gel0fand, Israel Moiseevich, Soviet 323, 324, 326, 328, 336, 340, 342, mathematician, 236 345, 347, 348, 352, 357, 366, 367, Geminder, Bedrich,ˇ Czechoslovak communist 375 politician, 153 Gorayska, Anna (née Mycielska), wife of Gentz, Walter, German governor of the Jasło Dymitr, 43 district 1940–44, 349 Gorayska, mother of Dymitr, 43 George, David Lloyd, British politician of Gorayski, a brother of Dymitr, 43 Welsh background, 278 Gorayski, Dymitr, business partner of the Gero,˝ Erno,˝ Hungarian politician, 202 author’s father, 43 Getynska´ (née Poratynska),´ a Lwów Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, Soviet acquaintance of the author, 38 politician, 280 Giedroyc, Jerzy, Polish writer and political Gorky, Maxim, Russian/Soviet writer, 155 activist, 257 Górny, Stanisław, Polish civil servant, 206, 248 Gierszewski, Stanisław, Polish physician, Górska, Antonina, daughter of Professor 37 Handelsman, 371 Gieysztor, Aleksander, Polish historian, 329 Górska, Halina, Polish writer and communist Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean, French novelist activist, 240 and playwright, 372 Górski, Konrad Józef, Polish historian and Gładysz, Stanisław, Polish mathematician, literary theorist, 174, 326, 329 322, 330, 332, 340, 341 Göth, Amon, Nazi concentration camp Glatzel, Jan, Polish surgeon, 6 commandant, 62 386 Index of Names

Gottwald, Klement, Czechoslovak communist Haller de Hallenberg, Józef, Polish military politician, 156 commander, 269, 289 Grabowski, Witold, a radiology expert and Halley, Edmond, English astronomer and Wrocław professor, 21, 25, 32, 57, mathematician, 10 100 Halmos, Paul Richard, Hungarian-American Gradstein, Alfred, Polish composer, 160 mathematician, 74 Greczek, Stefan, father of Stefan Banach Sr., Hamerski, Edward, head internist veterinarian 180 in Lwów, 39 Green, an official with the Picker Co., 70 Hammarskjöld, Dag, Swedish diplomat and Grek, Jan, Lwów professor of medicine, 39, economist, 210 335 Hampel, a Czech statistician, 172 Grekowa, Maria, wife of Jan, 39 Handelsman, Marceli, Polish historian, 371 Grell, Heinrich, German mathematician, 177 Hanska,´ Jadwiga, Polish film actress, 240 Grell, Mrs., wife of Heinrich, 177 Haraschin, see Polan-Haraschin Greniewski, Henryk, Polish mathematician, Haraschinowa, I., wife of Polan-Haraschin, 85, 199 310, 318 Greniewskis, the family of Henryk, 85 Hardenberg, von, German countess, 264 Grochowski, Jerzy, Polish dendrologist, 110 Harriman, William Averell, American Gröer, Franciszek, Polish pediatrician and politician, 314 medical scientist, 41, 167, 199, 261 Harris, Frank, Irish-born American author, Gromyko, Andre˘ı Andreevich, Soviet editor, and publisher, 181 politician, 136, 189, 314, 366 Hartman, Stanisław, Polish mathematician, 9, Gross, Ernest A., American diplomat, 147 129, 161, 277 Groves, General Leslie R., construction head of Hartmans, the family of Stanisław, 41 the Los Alamos research complex, Has, Wojciech Jerzy, Polish film director, 302 75, 76 Hašek, Jaroslav, Czech satirical writer, 228 Grus, Kazimierz, Polish cartoonist and Hecke, Erich, German mathematician, 64 illustrator, 38 Heisenberg, Werner, German physicist, 105 Grz˛edzielski, Jerzy, Polish medical professor, Helson, Henry, American mathematician, 96, 39 235 Grzegorczyk, Andrzej, Polish mathematical Hemar, Marian (born Jan Maria Hescheles), logician, 171 Polish-Jewish journalist, poet, and Guggenheim, Solomon R., American art song-writer, 236 collector and philanthropist, 287 Hemingway, Ernest, American novelist, 118, Gumilev, Lev Nikolaevich, Russian-Soviet 256 historian and ethnographer, 52 Hen, Józef, Polish writer and screenwriter, 224 Gumilev, Nikola˘ı Stepanovich, Russian poet, Henzel, Baron, a rich aristocrat from Łód´z, 188 52 Herglotz, Gustav, Bohemian-born German Gurevich, Mikhail Iosifovich, Soviet aircraft mathematician, 191 designer, 128 Hermann, Paul, a German technician, 21, 32 Guze (Guzówna), Joanna, Polish writer and Herter, Christian Archibald, American translator, 56, 82 politician, 265, 267 Gwiazdomorski, Jan, Polish law professor, Hertz, Paweł, Polish writer, 223, 326 219 Hewitt, Carol, wife of Edwin, 77 Hewitt, Edwin, American mathematical analyst, 74, 77 H., Ada, an acquaintance of the author, 58 Hewitts, the family of Edwin, 76, 77 H., St., Professor, an acquaintance of the Hilarowicz, Henryk, Lwów professor, surgeon, author, 132, 196 39 Habsburgs, dynasty ruling the Austro- Hilbert, David, illustrious German Hungarian Empire, 362 mathematician, 264 Hajós, Gyorgy,˝ Hungarian mathematician, 162 Hille, Einar, Swedish-American Halder, Franz, German general, 315 mathematician, 78 Halinka, an acquaintance of the author, 43 Hilton, Conrad, American hotelier, 77 Index of Names 387

Himlowa, a Polish medical researcher, 370 Indruchs, a Lwów family, friends of the Hirszfeld, Ludwik, Polish microbiologist, 9, Steinhauses, 46 15, 16, 25, 27, 105, 120, 131, 138, Infeld, Leopold, Polish physicist, 26, 121, 138, 143, 147, 173, 174, 181, 186, 190, 143, 174, 209, 212, 213, 244, 273, 198, 199 326, 329 Hirszfeldowa, Hanna, wife of Ludwik, 138, Ingarden, Roman Witold, Polish philosopher 186 and engineer, son of Roman Kajetan, Hirszfelds, the family of Ludwik, 32 1 Hiss, Alger, American lawyer, government Ivanov, a student of Lysenko, 168 official, and alleged Soviet spy, 117 Ivanov, Igor0, alleged Soviet spy, 319 Hitler, Adolf, 8, 35, 132, 155, 176, 194, 206, Ivinskaya, Ol0ga Vsevolodovna, Russian poet, 227, 232, 239, 315, 317, 327, 340, mistress of Boris Pasternak, 280, 358, 366 307 Hlond, August, Polish cardinal, 110 Iwanowski, A., a Wrocław student, 52 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese communist leader, Iwaszkiewicz, Bolesław, Polish mathematician 179 and politician, 314 Hoffmann, Carl Adolf Maximilian, German Iwaszkiewicz, Jarosław, Polish poet and World War I general, 126 essayist, 182, 257 Hogg, Quintin McGarel, Baron Hailsham, British politician, 314 Hölder, Otto Ludwig, German mathematician, J., a Katowice engineer, 48 191 J., Mr., Polish translator of Proust, Hölderlin, Johann Friedrich, German lyric 208 poet, 8 Jabłonski,´ Henryk, Polish historian and Hollender, Tadeusz, Polish humorist and poet, communist politician, 209, 272 240, 241 Jackowski, Tadeusz Gustaw, Polish diplomat, Holzer, Adela (Ada), daughter of Lila, 12 184 Holzer, Lila, a cousin of the author’s wife, 1, Jan II Kazimierz Waza, king of Poland, 231 12 Jarecki, Franciszek, Polish pilot, 159 Hoover, Herbert, American politician, 69 Jarník, Vojtech,ˇ Czech mathematician, 53, 103 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Roman Jarochowska, Maria, Polish socialist writer, lyric poet, 227 257 Horodynski,´ Dominik, a Polish journalist, 65 Jaroszewicz, Alfred, Polish party functionary Hubert, an acquaintance of the author, 14 and politician, 191 Hulin, director of a US oil refinery, 73 Jaroszewicz, Piotr, Polish communist Hulka-Laskowski, Paweł, Polish writer, politician, 346, 349 translator, and social worker, 181 Jaroszynski,´ Maurycy Zdzisław, law professor, Hurewicz, Witold, Polish-American 60 mathematician, 62, 79 Jasienica, Paweł (actually Leon Lech Beynar), Hurewiczs, the family of Witold, 79 Polish historian and journalist, 199 Hurwitz, Wallie Abraham, American Jasinska,´ an official at Wrocław University, 27 mathematician, 71 Jasinski,´ Jakub, Polish general, engineer, and Huskowska, Anna, Polish mathematician, wife poet, 125 of Tadeusz, 258 Jastrun, Mieczysław, Polish-Jewish essayist Huskowski, Tadeusz, Polish mathematician, and poet, 223 94, 253 Jaworski, Władysław Leopold, Polish lawyer, Huxley, Aldous, English novelist, 101 42 Huxley, Julian, English biologist and Jaworski, Władysław, Polish poet, 44 internationalist, 101, 102 Ja´zwinski,´ Zdzisław, Polish pilot, 159 Jedlicki, Witold, Polish socialist writer, 305, 312 I., Dr., a Wrocław University alumnus, 212 Jedlicz, Józef (actually Kapuscie´ nski),´ teacher Indruch, head of the Indruch household, 46 at the Gymnasium, poet and critic, Indruchowa, an aunt of Danuta Smalewska, 46 119, 187 388 Index of Names

Jefferson, Thomas, American revolutionary Kaluzhnin, Lev Arkadievich, Soviet algebraist, leader, 72 177 Jeffreys, Sir Harold, English statistician and Kamienski,´ Michał, Polish astronomer, 5, 10 astronomer, 149 Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich, Soviet physicist, Jessen, Børge Christian, Danish mathematician, 55, 203 64, 161 Kapłan, Salomea, wife of Kazimierz Fajans Jezierska, a secretary and editor, 192 (see Volume 1), 286 John XXIII, Roman Catholic pope, 294, 306 Kaplansky, Irving, Canadian-American Johnson, Lyndon B., American politician, 317, algebraist, 74 321, 326, 333, 339, 374 Kapuscie´ nski,´ Jerzy, son of Józef Jedlicz, 119 Joliot-Curie, Frédéric, French scientist, 52, Kapusci´ nski,´ Witold Juliusz, Polish eye 101, 108, 130, 132, 148, 212, 224 specialist, Wrocław professor, 248 Joliot-Curie, Irène, French scientist, daughter Kapusci´ nskis,´ the family of Witold, 248 of Marie and Pierre Curie, 52, 101, Kármán, Theodore von, Hungarian-American 108, 130 engineer and physicist, 67 Joszt, Adolf, Polish chemist, 1 Karpf, Józef, a Jasło doctor, 40 Jó´zwiak, Franciszek, Polish communist Karren, Tamara, a reporter encountered in politician, 206 Krynica, 353 Jungk, Robert, Austrian writer, 239, 240 Kasavubu, Joseph, Congolese president, 357 Kasprowicz, Jan, Polish poet and playwright, 188 K., A., a professorial acquaintance of the Kasprzycki, Tadeusz, Polish general and author, 150 politician, 125 K., an acquaintance of the author, 134 Kaszewski, a Polish professor, 7 K., an alleged fraudster, 106 Keldysh, Mstislav Vsevolodovich, Soviet K., Olga, a Bern acquaintance of the author, 83 mathematician and physicist, 338 K., Teresa, a certain linguist’s daughter, 160, Kellogg, Frank B., American politician, 108 174, 217 Kelus, Andrzej, Polish immunologist, 144, 226 Kac, Katarzyna (Katherine), wife of Marek Kempisty, Czesław, son of Stefan, 50 Kac, 23, 70, 77 Kempisty, Stefan, Polish mathematician, 50 Kac, Marek (Mark), Polish-American Kempner, a judge, 189 mathematician, 10, 12, 22, 25, 30, Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee, wife of John F., 321 36, 37, 57, 58, 62, 70–72, 76, 224, Kennedy, John F., American politician, 75, 235, 244, 247, 268, 285, 286 210, 281, 282, 291, 301, 317, Kaczmarz, Stefan, Polish mathematician, 11, 319–321, 333, 335, 337, 341 80 Kennedy, Robert, American politician, a Kaczorowska, a Polish mathematician, 219 brother of John F., 375 Kádár, János, Hungarian communist politician, Khrushchov, Nikita Sergeevich, Soviet 213, 231, 336 politician, 102, 156, 168, 185, Kadyj, Henryk, brother of Józef, anatomy 189, 197–199, 202, 203, 208, 211, professor in Lwów, 332 213, 214, 217, 220, 223, 240, 244, Kadyj, Józef, a Jasło doctor, 332 245, 255, 261, 262, 265–267, 271, Kadyj, Stanisław, Polish eye specialist, son of 282, 288, 291, 293, 301, 302, 304, Józef, 313, 331, 350 306–308, 316, 317, 319, 325, 326, Kadyj, Zdzisław, another son of Józef, 332 330, 332, 337, 338, 345, 346 Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseevich, Soviet Kiesinger, Kurt George, German Catholic politician, 211, 220 politician, 365 Kajetanowicz, Dyonizy, Armenian prelate in Kijowski, Andrzej, Polish writer, 325 Lwów, 38 Kirchmayer, Jerzy Maria, Polish historian and Kajzerówna (or Keizerówna), Zoﬁa, Polish military commander, 182, 203 actress, 126 Kleiner, Juliusz, Polish literary historian, 111 Kalecka, wife of Michał, 267 Kliszko, Zenon, Polish communist politician, Kalecki, Michał, Polish economist, 206, 312, 318, 336, 342, 366 197, 267 Klobassa, Stanisław Karol, oil entrepreneur, 43 Index of Names 389

Knaster, a sister of Bronisław, 23 Kosciałkowska,´ Janina (née W˛egrzynska),´ a Knaster, Bronisław, Polish mathematician, 1, daughter of Jan W˛egrzynski´ (see 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 23, 25, 27, 49, Volume 1), 359 51, 60, 97, 143, 180, 220, 277, 283 Kosciuszko,´ Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura, Knaster, Dr. Ludwik, father of Bronisław, 10, Polish engineer and military leader, 23 72, 121 Knot, Antoni, Polish historian and Wrocław Koskowski, Włodzimierz, Polish University librarian, 283 pharmacologist, 34 Kobylinski,´ a lottery player, 270 Kossak-Szczucka, Zofia, Polish writer and Koch, Ilse, wife of Karl-Otto, 353 resistance fighter, 326 Koch, Karl-Otto, concentration camp Kostrzewski, Józef, Polish archaeologist, 276 commandant, 353 Kosygin, Alekse˘ı Nikolaevich, Soviet Kochanski,´ a Polish engineer, 95 politician, 168, 337, 342, 346, 354, Kofta, Maria, wife of Mieczysław, 18, 23, 24, 365, 366 38 Kot, Stanisław, Polish historian and politician, Kofta, Mieczysław, a cultural activist in 5, 213 postwar Poland, 18, 27, 33, 98 Kotarbinski,´ Tadeusz, Polish philosopher and Koftas, the family of Mieczysław, 18, 21, 33 logician, 4, 25, 102, 244, 251, 262, Kohn, a doctor, alleged victim of Garbinski,´ 278, 326, 329 328 Kott, Jan (Janek), Polish writer, professor, and Kołakowski, Leszek, Polish philosopher, 324, the author’s son-in-law, 10, 12, 23, 365 28, 29, 45, 56, 61, 65, 101, 102, 113, Kolischerówna-Kapuscie´ nska,´ Niusia, wife of 142, 145, 147, 163, 184, 197, 203, Jerzy Kapuscie´ nski,´ 119 212, 223, 231, 263, 324, 326, 328 Kołłataj, ˛ Hugo, Polish priest and historian, 138 Kott, Lidia Teresa, the author’s granddaughter, Kolmogorov, Andre˘ı Nikolaevich, Soviet 72, 101, 105, 113, 163, 173, 209, mathematician, 103, 127, 161, 176, 212, 231, 333 234, 236, 306 Kott, Michał, the author’s grandson, 166 Kołodziejska (née Antecka), wife of Henryk, Kovan0ko, A. S., Soviet mathematician, 44 11 Kowalczyk, surgical assistant, 6 Kołodziejski, Henryk, Polish economist and Kowalska, Anna (née Chrzanowska), Polish historian, 11, 57, 127 novelist and diarist, 98, 99, 256, Kołodziejski, Ryszard, son of Henryk, 11 323, 326, 334 Kolski, an alleged spy, 96 Kowalski, Jerzy, Polish writer and philologist, Komar, Wacław, Polish brigadier general, 139, 39, 40 183, 211, 213 Kowarzyk, Hugon, Polish physician and Komornicki, Fr. Dr. Władysław, a Lwów physiopathologist in Wrocław, 25, theologian, relative of the 32, 39, 48, 181, 186, 340, 361 Ostrowskis (see Vol ume 1), 39 Kowarzyks, the family of Hugon, 100 König, a Viennese cardinal, 356 Ko˙zuchowski, Józef, professor of electrical Konopinski,´ Tadeusz, Polish zoologist, 15 engineering in Wrocław, 61, 303 Kopec,´ Ada (née Halpern), Polish writer, 235 Krajewski, a Polish diplomat, 186 Kopecs,´ the family of Ada, 235 Kramarz, Mr. and Mrs., Lwów acquaintances, Kopernik (Copernicus), Mikołaj, Polish 67 astronomer and mathematician, 55, Kramer, Henryk, a Jasło acquaintance, 40 138 Kramerowa, Greta, wife of Henryk, 40 Korczynski,´ a lottery official, 270 Krasinski,´ Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Korínek,ˇ Vladimír, Czech mathematician, 103 Feliks Zygmunt, illustrious Polish Kornmehl, a son of Ezriel, 36 poet, 187 Kornmehl, Ezriel, a Jasło physician, 36 Krassowska-Jodłowska, Eugenia, Polish Kornmehl, son of Kornmehlowa, 118 pedagogue and politician, 64, 87, Kornmehlowa, an acquaintance of the author, 98, 112, 123, 143, 311, 312 118 Kraus, Karl, Austrian satirical writer, 188, 199, Korowicz, Henryk, Lwów economist, 39 227, 321, 330 390 Index of Names

Krieger-Dunaij, Cypra Cecilia, Polish- Kuryłowicz, Jarosław, Polish engineer, 38, 52, Jewish-Canadian mathematician, 56 28 Kuryłowicz, Jerzy, Polish linguist, 102 Królikiewiczowa, Ziunia, sister of Niusia Kuryłowiczs, the family of Jerzy, 44 Kolischerówna-Kapuscie´ nska,´ 119 Kuryluk, Karol, Polish journalist and politician, Kroll, Alicja, wife of Eryk, 194 240 Kroll, Eryk, owner of a guesthouse in Jastarnia, Kwiatkowska, Mrs. Barbara, daughter of the 193 Earl of Dartmouth, 236, 313 Kronski,´ Tadeusz Juliusz, Polish philosopher, Kwiatkowski, a Polish-British engineer, husband of Irena Krzemicka, 53 husband of Barbara, 312 Kruczkowski, Leon, Polish writer and Kwiatkowskis, the family of Barbara, 312 publicist, 262 Kwiek, Marek, Polish physicist, 120 Krukowski, Włodzimierz, Polish scientist and engineer, 39 Krupp, German industrial dynasty, Ł., Adam, a Zakopane acquaintance, 243 340, 342 Ł., an acquaintance of the author, 131 Krygowski, Zdzisław, Polish mathematician, Ł., director of a workshop at the PAN 55 Mathematics Institute, 273 Krzemicka, Irena, an acquaintance of the Ł., J., an acquaintance of the author, 97 author, 53 L., Mr., putative Polish Minister of Justice, 203 Krzywicka, Irena (née Goldberg), Polish writer La Fontaine, Jean de, French poet and fabulist, and feminist, 246 121 Krzywicki, Andrzej (André) Tadeusz, Labuda, Aleksander, Kashubian writer, 194 Polish-French physicist, son of Labuda, Gerard, Polish historian, 194 Irena, 246 Lage, a member of the Hitlerjugend, 173 Krzywicki, Andrzej, Polish mathematician, Landau, Edmund, German-Jewish number 264 theorist, 264 Krzy˙zanowski, Adam, Polish economist and Lane, Arthur Bliss, American diplomat, 37 politician, 218 Lange, Oskar Ryszard, Polish economist and Kubrakiewicz, Zbigniew, professor in diplomat, 118, 120, 205, 267, 305 Wrocław, radiologist, 57 Langerówna, a foundry ofﬁcial, 46 Kuchar, Helena, and her husband, a couple Laska, Polish Police Commissioner for who observed the Lwów massacre Bobowa, 10 of professors, 261 Łaski, Colonel Zygmunt, Polish surgeon and Kuczewski, Władysław, Polish engineering government ofﬁcial, 50, 56 professor and politician, 4, 49 Latour, an engineer, 49 Kuczynski,´ E., Polish mathematician, 107 Lauer, Henryk, Polish mathematician, 358 Kuczynski,´ Henryk, Polish chemist, Wrocław Lavrientiev, Mikhail Alekseevich, Soviet professor, 283 mathematician, 44 Kukulska, wife of Kukulski, 257 Lawrence, David Herbert, English novelist and Kukulski, a Jasło merchant, 257 poet, 163, 181 Kukulskis, family of Kukulski, 257 Łazowski, a Polish pediatrician, 199 Kulczynska,´ wife of Stanisław, 29 Le Pen, Jean-Marie, French politician, 179 Kulczynski,´ Stanisław, Polish botanist and Lebedev, Viktor Zakharovich, Soviet diplomat, politician, 4, 6, 9, 11, 25, 32, 34, 37, 40 39, 48, 60, 102, 131, 148, 174, 186, Lechowicz, Włodzimierz, Polish politician, 190, 206, 261, 283, 334, 355, 357 133, 192, 212 Kulczynskis,´ the family of Stanisław, 8 Lederer, Hugo, Austrian-born German Kuncewiczowa, Maria, Polish writer, 344 sculptor, 59 Kuratowski, Kazimierz, Polish mathematician, Legge, William, Earl of Dartmouth, father- 56, 59, 110, 137, 138, 182, 209, 251, in-law of Zbyszek Łomnicki, 262 312 Kurfürsten, prince-electors of Brandenburg, Lehár, Franz, Austro-Hungarian composer of 176 operettas, 331 Index of Names 391

Lehm, Samuel, a Lwów pharmacist, 1, 145 Longchamps de Bérier, Kazimierz, a son of Lehm, son of Samuel, 1, 145 Roman, 39 Lehrer, Thomas Andrew, American singer- Longchamps de Bérier, Roman, Polish lawyer songwriter and mathematician, and professor, 39, 218 244 Longchamps de Bérier, Zygmunt, a son of Lelewel, Joachim, Polish historian and Roman, 39 politician, 138 Loria, Jadwiga (Jadwisia), daughter of Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton von, Stanisław, 8, 50 Hungarian-German physicist, 105 Loria, Mrs. (née Słomnicka), wife of Stanisław, Lenartowicz, an acquaintance of the author, 41 8 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 156, 240, 291, 304, Loria, Stanisław, Polish physicist, 8, 9, 26, 31, 306, 365 41, 50 Lenkiewicz, an uncle of Maria Nosarzewska, Łos,´ Jerzy, Polish mathematician, philosopher, 99 and economist, 7 Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 148 Louis XIV, French king, 82 Lepeshinskaya, Ol0ga Borisovna, Russian Lübke, Karl Heinrich, West German politician, revolutionary and Soviet medical 343 scientist, 134, 203 Ludwig II, king of Bavaria, 287 Leszczynski,´ Stanisław, a Polish ofﬁcial Łukasiewicz, Jan, Polish logician and involved in educational reform, 49 philosopher, 269 Levin, Leo, a Russian-Jewish doctor, 155 Łukaszewicz, Józef, Polish mathematician, Lévy, Paul Pierre, French probabilist, 171 144, 219, 249, 274 Lewicka, Wanda, Polish dentistry student, 101 Lumumba, Patrice, Congolese independence Lewin, an American pediatrician, 100 leader, 271 Lichtenstein, Leon, Polish-German Lundkvist, Artur, Swedish writer and poet, 238 mathematician, 59, 241, 264, 276 Lysenko, Troﬁm Denisovich, Soviet biologist Lilienthal, David Eli, chairman of the US and agronomist, 104, 113, 132, 134, Atomic Energy Commission, 76 148, 168, 173, 185, 198, 203, 340 Lille, Miss, an acquaintance of the author, 15 Lincoln, Abraham, American politician, 321 Lipinski,´ Edward, Polish economist, 326 Lipinskis,´ the family of Edward, 354 M., a Wrocław Gymnasium student, 166 Lisocki, Stanisław, a relative of Ignacy M., M., Mr. and Mrs., acquaintances of the Steinhaus, 33 author, 252 Lloyd, John Selwyn Brooke, British politician, M., Professor, a Wrocław colleague of the 210 author, 167 Lobachevski˘ı, Nikola˘ı Ivanovich, Russian MacArthur, Douglas, American military leader, mathematician, 245 128, 131, 136, 154 Lomadze, George, Georgian mathematician, Mach, Ernst, Austrian physicist and 104 philosopher, 111 Lombroso, Cesare, Italian criminologist, 51 Macharska, second wife of Polan-Haraschin, Łomnicki, Adam, a son of Zbigniew, 236 310 Łomnicki, Antoni, Polish mathematician, 39, Mackiewicz, Stanisław, Polish conservative 335 writer, 326 Łomnicki, Zbigniew, Antoni’s nephew, Polish Macmillan, Harold, British politician, 314 mathematician, 235, 236, 243, 312 M˛aczewski, Stanisław, Lwów gynaecologist Łomnickis, the family of Zbigniew, 313 and obstetrician, 39 Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilievich, Russian Madden, Ray John, American politician, 143 polymath, 240 Majski, a Polish biologist, 215, 226 Longchamps de Bérier, Bronisław, a son of Makarewicz, Edward (Edzio), husband of Roman, 39 Lola, 12 Longchamps de Bérier, Franciszek, Polish Makarewicz, Lola, a cousin of the author, wife lawyer, a nephew of Roman, 218, of Edward, 1, 12 325 Makowski, a British college engineer, 312 392 Index of Names

Malenkov, Georgi˘ı Maksimilianovich, Soviet Mayakovski˘ı, Vladimir Vladimirovich, politician, 155, 156, 158, 165, 185, Russian/Soviet poet and playwright, 186, 203, 214, 215, 220 207 Malewski, Tadeusz, a physician in charge of a Mazur, Stanisław, Polish mathematician, 9, 34, sanatorium in Rabka, 101 44, 58–60 Malik, Yakov Aleksandrovich, Soviet Mazurkiewicz, Stefan, Polish mathematician, diplomat, 136, 147 268 Malinovski˘ı, Rodion Yakovlevich, Soviet Mazurkiewicz, Władysław, a Polish serial military commander and politician, killer, 201 223, 265 McCarthy, Joseph Raymond, American Manczak,´ Witold, Polish linguist, husband of politician, 102, 117 Barbara Zglinska,´ 306 McCulloch, Warren Sturgis, American Mandelbrojt, Szolem, Polish-Jewish neurophysiologist and cybernetician, mathematician, 242 242 Mann, Thomas, German novelist and short McMahon, Brian, American politician, 224 story writer, 132 Mead, Margaret, American anthropologist, 343 Manski,´ Władysław, Polish immunologist, 215 Mehrer, a Lwów doctor, 46 Mantel, Feliks, an employee in the Polish Mendel, Gregor Johann, Austrian friar and embassy in Vienna, 97 geneticist, 112 Mao Tse-tung, Chinese communist leader, 109, Mendès-France, Pierre, French politician, 179, 114, 117, 128, 136, 184, 213, 316, 184 364, 365, 367 Menz, a member of the Gestapo, 63 Marat, Jean-Paul, Swiss-born French physician Menzies, Robert, Australian politician, 234 and revolutionary, 110 Metol, a Polish engineer, 85 Marchlewski, Teodor, Polish geneticist, 173 Michajłow, Włodzimierz, Polish parasitologist Marciniak, Roman, Polish radiologist, and zoologist, 198 professor in Wrocław, 172 Michałkówna, Mania, a Jasło acquaintance, 33 Marczewska, Zofia (née Bursche), wife of Michałowski, Count Władysław, a Jasło Szpilrajn-Marczewski, 7 starosta, 124 Marczewskis, the family of Szpilrajn- Michałowski, Stefan, a son of the starosta Marczewski, 22 Władysław, 124, 125 Marschak, Jacob, Ukrainian-Jewish-American Michelson, Albert, American physicist, 348, economist, 77 349 Marshall, George C., American general and Michnik, Adam, Polish historian, essayist, politician, 108, 180 editor, and politician, 374 Martin, a British medical officer, 23 Michurin, Ivan Vladimirovich, Russian/Soviet Martinek, an American physicist and engineer, botanist, 104, 113, 148, 185 248, 249 Mickiewicz, Adam, illustrious Polish poet, Marx, Karl, German-Jewish economist and 110, 187, 241, 242, 374 philosopher, 138, 216, 218, 231, Mielczarkowa, a lottery player, 270 240, 365 Mi˛esowicz, Adam, grandson of Adam Sołowij, Masaryk, Jan, Czech diplomat and politician, 39 92, 153, 189, 376 Mieszko I, Polish medieval duke, 260 Masaryk, Tomáš, Czechoslovak political Mijal, Kazimierz, Polish politician and leader, father of Jan, 92 dissident, 361 Maselnikov, a Soviet diplomat, 216 Mikołajczyk, Stanisław, Polish politician, 3, Maslakówna,´ Krystyna, an acquaintance of the 37, 42, 43, 94, 118, 139 author, 174 Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich, Armenian-born Mason, Charles, English surveyor, 81 Soviet politician, 189, 211, 239 Matwin, Władysław, Polish communist Mikoyan, Artem Ivanovich, Armenian/Soviet politician, 113, 182, 282, 314 aircraft designer, 128 Maupassant, Guy de, French novelist, 187 Mikulski, Tadeusz, Polish literary historian, Maxwell, director of a London publishing firm, 41 235 Mikusinska,´ wife of Jan, 186 Index of Names 393

Mikusinski,´ Jan, Polish mathematician, 60, Mycielski, Andrzej, Polish law professor, 43, 145, 175 129 Milgrom, Feliks (Felix), Polish-American Mycielski, Count Jan, painter and grandfather immunologist, 215 of the mathematician Jan Mycielski, Milicerowa, a Czechoslovak civil servant, 206 14, 129 Millers, a San Francisco couple, 65 Mycielski, Jan, Polish-American Minc, Hilary, Polish communist politician, 89, mathematician, 129, 280, 97, 178, 197, 200 282 Mises, Richard von, Austrian-American Mycielski, Jerzy, Polish physicist, 274, 275 applied mathematician, 79 Mydlarski, Jan, Polish anthropologist, 146, Mobutu, Joseph, Congolese major-general and 167, 203, 241 politician, 271, 357 Myszka, 8 Mochnacka, Irena, Polish biologist, 41 Moczar, Mieczysław, Polish communist politician, 329 Nacht (actually Prutkowski), Józef, Polish Modzelewska, Lidia (Lidka), a friend of the actor and writer, 57, 63, 168 author,4,10 Nachts, the family of Józef, 63 Modzelewski, Zygmunt, Polish communist Naguib, Muhammad, Egyptian military and politician, 91 political leader, 141, 155 Moiseyev, Igor0 Aleksandrovich, Russian- Nagy, Imre, Hungarian communist politician, Jewish choreographer, 40 211 Molenda, a Jasło Gymnasium teacher, 126 Nałkowska, Zoﬁa, Polish novelist, 3 Mollet, Guy, French socialist politician, 215 Napierała, Bolesław, Polish cycling champion, Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, Soviet 122 politician, 45, 50, 114, 137, 157, Napoleon I (Bonaparte), 131 175, 179, 196, 198, 211, 220, 221, Napoleon III, French emperor, 263 291 Nasser, Gamal Abdel, Egyptian military and Mond, Bernard Stanisław, Polish general of political leader, 141, 155, 210, 307, Jewish background, 216 368 Mond, Jerzy, Polish journalist, a son of Bernard Nechludowa, a Czech statistician, 172 Stanisław, 216 Nehru, Jawaharlal, Indian politician, 156, 293 Montel, Paul, French mathematician, 12 Neizvestny˘ı, Ernst Iosifovich, Russian- Montgomery, Bernard L., British marshal, 23 American modernist artist and Morawski, Jerzy, Polish communist politician, sculptor, 308 249, 250 Nekrasov, Viktor Platonovich, Soviet writer, Morgenstern, Oskar, German-American 301, 302, 318 economist, 171 Nencki, Wilhelm Marceli, Polish chemist and Morrison, Philip, American physicist, 76 physician, 138 Moscicki,´ Ignacy, Polish chemist and Neumann, Carl Gottfried, German politician, 254, 279 mathematician, 249 Mostowski, Andrzej, Polish mathematical Neumann, John von, Hungarian-American logician, 4, 59, 171, 280, 281 mathematician, 70, 71, 78, 171 Motchane, Léon, French mathematician of Newton, Isaac, illustrious English physicist Russian origin, 347 and mathematician, 54, 98 Motyka, Józef, Polish botanist, 1, 146 Nexø, Martin Andersen, Danish writer, 130 Mounier, a French physiologist, 286 Neyman, Mrs., Infeld’s secretary, 174 Müllerówna, Muta, a niece of the author, Nietzsche, Friedrich, German philosopher, 187 Gustaw Müller’s daughter (see Nikliborc, Władysław, Polish mathematician, Volume 1), 14, 37, 43 9, 53 Murray, Francis Joseph, American Nikodým, Otto, Polish mathematician, 1 mathematician, 78 Nikodymowicz, a Kraków representative of the Murray, Mrs., wife of Francis Joseph, 78 Polish-French Institute, 42 Mussolini, Benito, 89 Nimitz, Chester William, US admiral, 69 394 Index of Names

Nitsch, Kazimierz, Polish linguist and slavist, Osóbka-Morawski, Edward, Polish politician, 144 23, 47, 54, 138, 139 Nixon, Richard M., American politician, 150, Ossowska, Maria, Polish sociologist and social 267 philosopher, 329 Noga, Stanisława (Stajda), a servant of the Osternowa, wife of Tuszkiewicz, 6 Blumenfelds, 44, 49 Ostrowska, a landlady in Władysławowo, 208 Norwid, Cyprian Kamil, Polish poet, dramatist, Ostrowska, Jadwiga, wife of Tadeusz, 39, 261 and painter, 242 Ostrowski, Adam, Polish lawyer and diplomat, Nosarzewska, Maria, mathematician at 29 Wrocław University, 99 Ostrowski, Tadeusz, Lwów surgeon, 39, 261 Nowak, a mathematician, 176 Oswald, Lee Harvey, US marine and assassin, Nowak, Zenon, Polish communist politician, 320, 328, 333, 335, 337, 341 206 Oswald, Marina, wife of Lee Harvey, 320 Nowicki, Jerzy, son of Witold, 39 Otto, Edward, Polish mathematician, brother Nowicki, Witold, Lwów professor of anatomy of Franciszek Otto (see Vol ume 1), and pathology, 39 24 Owinski,´ Tadeusz Szcz˛esny, Polish surgeon and stomatologist, 283 O., Jan, owner of a guest house in Krynica, 352, 353 Oberländer, Ludwik (Lulu), a school-friend of P., Miss M., an acquaintance of the author, 189 the author, 323 P., Mr., an acquaintance of the author, 300 Oberländer, Theodor, Nazi officer and German Pac, Ludwik Michał, Polish general, 333 politician, 261 Paderewski, Ignacy Jan, Polish pianist, O’Brien, Daniel P., representative of the composer, and politician, 72 Rockefeller Foundation, 51 Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza, Shah of Iran, 31, Ochab, Edward, Polish communist politician, 137 205, 211, 230, 375 Pamm, Olga, a cousin of the author’s wife, 10, Oderfeld, Jan, Polish mathematician, 104, 148, 82 149, 224 Pappus of Alexandria, last great Greek Oderfeld, Mrs. (née Poznanska),´ wife of Jan, mathematician of antiquity, 247 104 Parandowski, Jan, Polish writer, 129, 326 Odyss, Tadeusz, Polish engineer, 281 Parandziejówna, a Lwów treasury official, 46 Offord, Albert Cyril, British mathematician, Parkinson, James, English doctor, 171 162 Parnas, Jakub, Polish-Jewish-Soviet Olszewicz, Bolesław, Polish geographer, 283 biochemist, 14, 23, 27, 41, 51–54, Onyszko, a Ukrainian member of the Polish 113, 115 security service, 201 Parnas, Jan, son of Jakub, 49, 113, 115 Oppenheimer, Julius Robert, American Parnas, Mrs., wife of Jakub, 51, 115 physicist, 75 Parnas, Mrs., wife of Jan, 113 Oppenheimówna, a friend of the author, 46 Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, Russian poet Orlicz, Michał, directory of an observatory on and novelist, 52, 238, 280, 306 Kasprowy, 196 Paszek, a resident of Grybów, 135, 275 Orlicz, Władysław Roman, Polish Paszkowski, Stefan, Polish mathematician and mathematician, 9, 11, 55, 59, computer scientist, 300 60, 107, 208 Patalasówna, Maria, former tenant of the Orlicz, Zofia, Polish school teacher and Steinhauses, 242, 359 physicist, wife of Władysław, 108, Paul VI, Roman Catholic pope, 294 175 Paustowski, Konstanty, writer, 14 Orska-Wtorzecka, Irena, Polish actress, 172, Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, Russian/Soviet 174 physiologist, behaviorist, 169 Orzechowicz, 283 Pearson, Egon, English statistician, 149 Osiecka, Agnieszka, Polish writer and poet, Perkal, Julian, Polish mathematician, 96, 127, 339 324, 354, 355 Index of Names 395

Perron, Oskar, German mathematician, 64 Poincaré, Henri, illustrious French Petkov, Nikola Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician, mathematician, 249, 358 94 Poisson, Siméon Denis, French mathematician, Petriwski, a doctor, 41 240, 241 Petrov, Evdokia, wife of Vladimir, 234 Pol, Balthazar van der, Dutch engineer and Petrov, Vladimir, Soviet diplomat assigned to physicist, 247 Australia, 234 Polan-Haraschin, Julian, Polish lawyer and Petrusewicz, Kazimierz, Polish ecologist and army officer, 309–311, 316, 318, political activist, 173, 181, 186, 192, 324, 356 197, 198, 203 Polda, an acquaintance of the author, 1 Pflimlin, Pierre Eugène Jean, French politician, Politowskis, acquaintances of the author, 126 185, 232, 233 Pollard, Harry, American mathematician, 71 Philip IV, Spanish king, 279 Pólya, George, Hungarian-American Piasecki, Bolesław, Polish writer and politician, mathematician, 78 266, 281, 294, 348 Pomian, Stefan, Polish translator, 181 Piast, a ruling Polish dynasty, 40 Poniatowski, Stanisław August, last king of Picard, Charles Émile, French mathematician, Poland, 170, 267 249 Ponomarenko, Pantele˘ımon Kondratievich, Picasso, Pablo, Spanish artist, 101, 287 Soviet general and politician, 209 Picker, James, Russian-born American Popiel, Antoni, Polish sculptor, 72 entrepreneur, 73 Popiel, Karol, Polish politician, 47 Piecuchówna, Maria, a student at Kraków Por˛ebowicz, Edward, Polish literary scholar University, 135 and poet, 188 Pienkowski,´ Stefan, Polish physicist, Por˛ebski, a Polish professor, 7 52, 102 Potocka, Countess Ira, a Polish sculptress, 126 Pigon,´ Stanisław, Polish literary historian, 326, Potocki, Ignacy, former owner of Rymanów, 329 near Jasło, 43 Pilat, Stanisław, Polish chemist at the Lwów Powers, Francis Gary, American airforce pilot, Polytechnic, 7, 19, 39 265 Pilatowa, Ewa, chemistry docent in Lwów, Pozner, a Kraków acquaintance, 4 wife of Stanisław, 7, 18, 19 Progulski, Andrzej, son of Stanisław, 39 Pilawski, Bronisław, Polish engineer and Progulski, Stanisław, a Lwów pediatrician, 39 economist, Wrocław professor, 242, Proszek, Marian, Polish railroad official and 243 German guard, 62 Piłsudski, Józef Klemens, Polish marshal and Proust, Marcel, French novelist, 208, 213, 350 political leader, 54, 141, 170, 241, Przewirski, a Polish engineer, 35 254, 269, 278 Przybos,´ Julian, Polish essayist and poet, 83 Pinay, Antoine, French politician, 184, 185 Przybyszewski, Stanisław, Polish poet and Pineau, Christian, French resistance fighter and writer, 65 politician, 185, 210 Putrament, Jerzy, Polish writer, poet, and Pirogov, Nikola˘ı Ivanovich, Russian scientist, politician, 203 240 Pirquet, Clemens Peter Freiherr von, Austrian medical scientist, 36 Rabi, Isidor Isaac, Galician-born American Pitts, Walter Harry, American logician and physicist, 286 psychologist, 242 Rabinowicz, a Polish engineer, 14 Plamitzer, an adjunct at Kraków University, 7 Raczynski,´ husband of Jadwiga Loria, 8 Płowa, Franciszka, Banach’s foster mother, Radkiewicz, Stanisław, Polish/Soviet 180 communist activist, 156, 178, 183 Poci˛egl, a worker at the Kraków power station, Radon, Johann, Austrian mathematician, 161 107 Radziwiłł, Ferdynand, a medical student Podgorny˘ı, Nikola˘ı Viktorovich, Soviet encountered in Jastarnia, 195 politician, 366 Rajk, László, Hungarian communist politician, Poe, Edgar Allan, American writer, 286 114, 197, 202, 211 396 Index of Names

Rákosi, Mátyás, Hungarian communist Rokossowski, Konstanty Ksawerowicz, politician, 114, 202 Polish/Soviet general and politician, Rapacki, Adam, Polish politician and diplomat, 115, 121, 123, 132, 139, 210, 223 204, 281, 291, 329, 357 Rola-Zymierski,˙ Michał, Polish communist Rapp, von, a German colonel, 193 military leader, 54, 97, 139, 309 Rasiowa, Helena, Polish mathematical Rolski, an agricultural scientist in Wrocław, 95 logician, 171 Romanov, the Russian pre-revolutionary ruling Rasmussen, Emil, Danish writer, 127 dynasty, 214 Reagan, Ronald, American ﬁlm actor and Romer, Eugeniusz, Polish geographer, 101 politician, 239 Röntgen, Wilhelm, German physicist, 25, 32, Rees, Mina Spiegel, American mathematician, 38 73 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, American Rellich, Franz, Austrian-Italian mathematician, politician, 14, 93, 117, 285, 321 264 Rosenberg, Ethel Greenglass, American Rencki, Roman, Polish professor of medicine, communist, wife of Julius, 160, 262 39 Rosenberg, Julius, American communist, Rényi, Alfréd, Hungarian mathematician, 162, alleged Soviet spy, 159, 262 172, 176 Rosenthal, Abraham Michael, New York Times Rhee, Syngman, South Korean politician, 136, correspondent in Poland, 251 159 Rosenzweig, J., a mathematician, 167 Rhodes, Ida, an ofﬁcial at the US Bureau of Ross, Kenneth A., American mathematician, Standards, 71 74 Ribbentrop, Joachim von, German foreign Rosser, J. Barkley, American logician, 71 minister, 114 Rostworowskis, acquaintances of the author, Richmond, an American diplomat, 281 14 Ridgway, Matthew Bunker, American general, Ró˙zanski,´ Józef (born Josek Goldberg), 136, 146 member of the Polish security Riemann, G. F. Bernhard, illustrious German service, 183, 201 mathematician, 249 Rubinowicz, Dawid (Dawidek), young Polish Riesz, Marcel, Hungarian-Swedish author of a wartime diary, 256, 257 mathematician, brother of Frigyes Rubinowicz, Dawid, an Israeli chauffeur, Riesz (see Vol ume 1), 74 cousin of Dawidek Rubinowicz, 258 Robbins, Herbert Ellis, American Ruby, Jack, American night-club owner, 320, mathematician and statistician, 78 328, 333, 338 Robeson, Paul, African-American singer, actor, Rudenko, Roman Andreevich, Soviet lawyer, athlete, and scholar, 102 116 Rockefeller, John D., American business Ruebenbauer, Tadeusz, Polish agricultural magnate and philanthropist, 285, scientist, 96 288 Ruff, Adam, son of Stanisław, 39 Rockefeller, John D. Jr., son of John D. Sr., Ruff, Stanisław, Lwów surgeon, 39 287 Ruffowa, Anna, wife of Stanisław, 39 Rogala, Wojciech, Polish geologist, 61 Runge, Carl, German mathematician, 264 Rogowski, B., a friend of Stanisław Vincenz, Runge, Stanisław, Polish veterinary scientist, 241 181 Rogowski, Stanisław, Polish poet, 241 Rusinek, Kazimierz, Polish politician, 373 Roja, Bolesław, Polish military commander, Rusk, David Dean, American politician, 317, 269 319, 320 Rokosinska´ (Głuszkiewiczowa), Halina, Russell, Bertrand, English philosopher and daughter of Mrs. Rokosinska,´ 256, logician, 23, 181, 372, 375 258 Rutkowski, Adam, Polish editor, 257 Rokosinska,´ Mrs., a Katowice acquaintance of Rutkowski, Romuald, a Wrocław student, 59 the author, 256, 257 Ruziewicz, Stanisław, Polish mathematician, Rokossowska, wife of Konstanty, 39, 335 185 Rybarski, Adam, Polish mathematician, 341 Index of Names 397

Rydz-Smigły,´ Edward, Polish marshal, Schoenborn, Zofia, a daughter of Dyk, 33 politician, painter, and poet, 241, Schoenbornowa, Wanda, wife of Dyk, 33 279 Schoenbornówna (Zurkowa),˙ Józefa (Dziutka), Ryll-Nardzewski, Czesław, Polish a daughter of Dyk, 33 mathematician, 115 Schoenemannowa, Stanisława (Stasia) Rylski, a son of Major Rylski (see Vol ume 1), (née Igielska), wife of Witold 269 Schoenemann (see Volume 1), 23, Rzaca, ˛ Kazimierz (Kazio, Kazek), a student of 27, 32 the author in Stró˙ze, 14, 31 Scholl, Hans and Sophie, members of an Rzepinski,´ Czesław, Polish artist, 12 anti-Nazi movement in Germany, Rzymowski, Wincenty, Polish writer and 227, 228 politician, 26 Schopenhauer, Arthur, German philosopher, 8 Schur, Issai, German-Jewish mathematician, 79 S., Dr., a representative of the Polish Red Schuschnigg, Kurt Alois Josef Johann, Cross, 26 Chancellor of the Austrian Republic S., Mr., a letter writer, 270 prior to the Anschluss,58 S., Professor, an acquaintance of the author, Scott, Dana, American mathematician, 244 142 Semichastny˘ı, Vladimir Yefimovich, Soviet Sabina, the Steinhauses’ servant in Wrocław, politician, 318 47 Seymour, Beatrice Mary Kean, British novelist, Sadowski, George, a US congressman, 72 125 Sadowski, Wiesław, Polish economist and Shakespeare, William, illustrious English poet statistician, 171 and playwright, 52, 241, 328 Sakharov, Andre˘ı Dmitrievich, Soviet nuclear Shamir, Yitzhak, Polish-born Israeli political physicist, 203 activist, 221 Salan, Raoul Albin Louis, French general, 233 Sheherazade, legendary Persian queen and Sapieha, Prince Adam Stefan, Polish cardinal, storyteller, 272 archbishop of Kraków, 2, 155 Shepilov, Dmitri˘ı Trofimovich, Soviet Sartre, Jean-Paul, French existentialist politician, 220 philosopher, 102 Shevchenko, Taras Hryhorovych, Ukrainian Savage, Leonard Jimmie, American poet, writer, and public figure, 177 mathematician and statistician, 74 Shirer, William Lawrence, American journalist Savage, Mrs., wife of Leonard Jimmie, 74 and historian, 315 Sawicki, Jakub, Polish law professor, 330 Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrov, Soviet Sawicki, Jerzy, Polish lawyer, 116, 138, 231 novelist, 101 Sawyer, Wilbur Augustus, American Shvernik, Nikola˘ı Mikhailovich, Soviet bacteriologist, 22 politician, 157 Schaefer, a Göttingen professor, 35 Siegel, Carl Ludwig, German mathematician, Schaff, Adam, Polish philosopher, 305 64 Schärf, Henryk, Polish mathematician, 25 Sienkiewicz, Henryk, Polish writer, 101 Schauder, Juliusz Paweł, Polish-Jewish Sieradzki, Włodzimierz, Lwów professor of mathematician, 41 legal medicine, 39 Schauders, the family of Juliusz, 41 Sierpinska,´ Lesława, wife of Mieczysław, 286 Schedlovsky, an American biologist, 286 Sierpinska,´ wife of Wacław, 5, 104, 171 Schiffer, Menahem Max, German-Jewish- Sierpinski,´ Mieczysław (Miecio), son of American mathematician, 79 Wacław, 5, 104, 286 Schilling, Captain, an official in the US Sierpinski,´ Wacław, Polish mathematician, 1, Department of the Navy, 73 4, 12, 53, 56, 102–104, 137, 144, Schilling, Otto Franz Georg, German- 171, 188, 230, 276, 326 American algebraist, 74 Sikorski, Władysław Eugeniusz, Polish Schmidt, a Polish mining project director, 341 military and political leader, 54, Schoenborn, Józef (Dyk), a cousin of the 213, 241, 254 author, 33, 269 Skibinski,´ Dr., 36 398 Index of Names

Skórnicka, Mrs., daughter of the Zagórskis, Spychalski, Marian, Polish general and 231 politician, 133, 139, 156, 184, 191, Slánský, Rudolf, Czechoslovak communist 206, 309, 310, 342 politician, 153 Stachurska, Genia, a servant of the Steinhauses Sławinskis,´ a couple encountered in Zakopane, in Lwów, 192 269 Stalin, Joseph, 31, 37, 45, 51, 52, 60, 92, Slebodzi´ nski,´ Władysław, Polish 93, 99, 100, 102, 104, 109, 112, mathematician, 7, 9, 55, 97, 114–119, 122, 123, 127, 129–133, 127, 268, 341 143, 147, 153, 155–158, 163, 169, Slebodzi´ nskis,´ the family of Władysław, 183, 189, 197, 200, 202, 203, 211, 7, 38 213, 214, 221, 232, 238, 262, 280, Słomnicka, Wanda, sister of Mrs. Loria, 8 291, 293, 304, 306, 317, 345, 346, Słonimski, Antoni, Polish writer and poet, 3, 352, 364, 369 203, 318, 324, 326, 328, 336 Stapledon, William Olaf, British philosopher Słonimski, Piotr, Polish biochemist, nephew of and writer of science ﬁction, 101 Antoni, 3 Stark, Marceli, Polish mathematician, 1, 12, Slopek,´ Stefan, Polish microbiologist and 34, 58, 60, 62, 124, 145 immunologist, 174, 181, 199 Starks, the family of Marceli, 50 Słowacki, Juliusz, illustrious Polish poet, 187, Stasiakówna, an acquaintance met in 242 Kroscienko´ nad Dunajcem, 172 Słupecki, Jerzy, Polish mathematical logician, Staszewski, Stefan, Polish communist Wrocław professor, 269 apparatchik, 213 Smalewska, Danuta, a friend of the author’s Staszic, Stanisław Wawrzyniec, Polish priest daughter, 36, 38, 46 and philosopher, 138 Smalewska, mother of Danuta, 36, 44 Stawinski,´ Julian, Polish lawyer and translator, Smalewski, father of Danuta, 36 59 Smith, H. Alexander, New Jersey senator, Stechert, G. E., American publisher, 13 69 Stein, a Jasło lawyer, 5 Smith, Howard Kingsbury, American Steinbeck, John, American novelist, 319, 320 journalist, 109 Steinhaus, Bogusław, the author’s father, a Smolenski,´ Dionizy, Polish chemist, 268 Jasło merchant, 350 Smulikowska, an acquaintance of the author, Steinhaus, Ignacy, brother of the author’s 35 father, 33, 350 Sobieski, Jan III, king of the Polish-Lithuanian Steinhauses, the family of the author, 8 Commonwealth, 118, 168 Steinhausowa, Ewelina (née Lipschitz), the Sojkówna, Mrs., a Kraków acquaintance of the author’s mother, 43, 48, 58, 85, 94, author, 35 263 Sokal, S., 53 Steinhausowa, Stefania (Stefa) (née Sokolov, Alexander (Alias Robert K. Baltch), Szmoszówna), the author’s wife, 11, Soviet spy, 339 14, 15, 22, 40, 46, 58, 62, 83, 94, 96, Sokolovski˘ı, Vasili˘ı, Soviet marshal, 93 97, 105, 107, 126, 159, 160, 168, Sokorski, Włodzimierz, Polish writer, 173, 202, 207, 208, 222, 231, 252, journalist and communist politician, 288, 302, 313, 350, 354 48, 204 Steinhausówna (Chwistkowa), Olga, the Sołowij, Adam, Lwów gynaecologist and author’s youngest sister, 241 obstetrician, 39 Steinhausówna (Kottowa), Lidia (Lidka), the Sosnowski, Leonard, Polish physicist, 199 author’s daughter, 5, 10, 12, 26, 29, Sozanski,´ Władek, a friend from Jasło days, 44, 45, 50, 52–54, 56, 62, 65, 101, 269 105, 113, 135, 163, 167, 183, 188, Špacek,ˇ Antonín, Czechoslovak 209, 212, 231, 256, 257, 267 mathematician, 176 Steinhausówna (Müllerowa), Felicja, the Spława-Neyman, Jerzy, Polish-American author’s eldest sister, 262, 263 mathematician, 62, 121, 127, 149 Steinhausówna (Zglinska),´ Irena, the author’s Spława-Neymans, the family of Jerzy, 184 middle sister, 35 Index of Names 399

Steins (assumed name Kaminski),´ the family Szczeklik, Edward, Polish internist in of a Jasło lawyer, 5 Wrocław, 95, 101 Stempowski, Stanisław, Polish-Ukrainian Szczepankiewicz, Stanisław, Polish geologist, writer and politician, 98 62 Stevenson, Adlai, American politician, 152 Szczepanski,´ Jan Józef, Polish writer, 256 Stiller, Miss, a Polish schoolteacher, 354 Szczotka, Franciszek, Polish mathematician, Stoiłovic,´ a mathematician, 103 258 Stone, Marshall Harvey, American Szczypcina, wife of Szczypta, 135 mathematician, 220 Szczypta, Polish postal worker and German Sto˙zek, Emanuel, a son of Włodzimierz, 39 informant, 135 Sto˙zek, Eustachy, a son of Włodzimierz, 39 Szego,˝ Gábor, Hungarian-American Sto˙zek, Włodzimierz, Polish mathematician, mathematician, 78 39, 335 Szeligowski, Stanisław Sabin, Polish Straszewski, Polish engineer, 49 astronomer, 277 Strzelecki, Jan, Polish sociologist and political Szembek, Count Jan, Polish politician and activist, 324 diplomat, son of Zygmunt, 129 Strzelecki, Ryszard, Polish politician, 305, 318 Szembek, Count Zygmunt, Polish aristocrat, Studnicki, Franciszek, Polish law professor, 129 219 Szemplinska,´ El˙zbieta, Polish writer and poet, Stys,´ Wincenty, professor of economics in 97 Wrocław, 56, 96, 196 Szmielew, Wanda, Polish mathematician, 128, Sucharda, Anna, daughter of Edward, 6 161, 174, 180, 241 Sucharda, Edward, Polish chemist, 1, 6, 9, 21, Szmosz, Adolf (Dolek), a brother-in-law of the 31 author, 10, 29, 218, 263 Suchodolski, Bogdan, Polish philosopher and Szmosz, the author’s father-in-law, 310 science historian, 247 Szmoszowa, Paulina, the author’s mother-in- Suchowiak, Lech, a student, 61 law, 245, 280 Suharto, Haji Mohammad, second Indonesian Szmoszówna (Dittersdorfowa), Helena (Hela), president, 357 the author’s sister-in-law, 82 Sukarno, first Indonesian president, 357 Szparkowski, Zygmunt, Polish engineer, Suppé, Franz von, Austrian composer of Wrocław professor, 268 operettas, 331 Szpilrajn-Marczewski, Edward, Polish-Jewish Suslov, Mikhail Andreevich, Soviet politician, mathematician, 7, 9, 97, 138, 164, 325, 337 170, 208, 217, 268, 276, 277, 341 Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich, Russian Szydłowski, a Jasło Gymnasium teacher, 187 generalissimo, 121, 125 Szymaniec, Stanisław, Polish biologist, 340 Swi´ atkowski, ˛ Henryk, Polish Minister of Szyr, Eugeniusz, Polish major and communist Justice, 203 politician, 249, 341 Swiatło,´ Józef (born Izaak Fleischfarb), official in the Polish Ministry of Public Security, 178, 187, 192, 201, 314 T., Mr., an acquaintance of the author, 172 Swida,´ Witold, Wrocław law professor, 283 T., uninvited attendee at a conference in Spała, Swiderska,´ Halina, Polish writer, 262 175 Swierczkowski,´ Stanisław, Polish Taft, William Howard, American politician, 72 mathematician, 282 Tapkowski, Dr. Tadeusz, a Lwów lawyer, 39 Swing, a US consulate official in Warsaw, 64 Tarnowski, Count Stanisław, Polish critic, Synge, John Lighton, Irish mathematician and historian, 187 physicist, 70 Tarski, Alfred, Polish-American logician and Sz., Mr., an acquaintance of the author, 361 mathematician, 62, 128, 244 Szafer, Tadeusz P., Polish architect and urban Taubenschlag, Rafał, Polish historian of law, planner, 273 231 Szafraniec, Marian, an assistant of Laska, 47 Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard Freiherr von, Szarskis, acquaintances of the author, 1 German publisher, 125 400 Index of Names

Taylor, Ellis, physicist at the US Bureau of Tuszkiewicz, Alfred Roman, professor of Standards, wife of Moddie Daniel, internal medicine in Wrocław, 6 81 Tuwim, Julian, Polish poet, 59, 161, 165, 166 Taylor, Moddie Daniel, African-American Tuwim, Stefania, wife of Julian, 184 chemist, 81 Twardowski, Kazimierz, Polish philosopher, Teller, Edward, Hungarian-American physicist, 188, 278 239 Tyrmand, Leopold, Polish novelist, 227 Teppowa, an acquaintance of the author, 35 Terentianus Maurus, Roman grammarian, 227 Thales of Miletus, pre-Socratic Greek Uhlenbeck, George Eugene, Dutch-American philosopher, 247 physicist, 36, 286 Thant, U, Burmese Secretary-General of the Ujejski, Kornel, Polish poet and patriotic UN, 291 writer, 111 Thiers, Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe, French Ulam, Françoise, wife of Stanisław, 75, 76 politician and historian, 263 Ulam, Stanisław Marcin, Polish-American Tiche Falencki, Karin, Polish actress, 80 mathematician, 30, 48, 57, 59, 75, Tisserant, Eugène, French cardinal, 70 76, 220, 235, 239, 265, 286 Tito, Josip Broz, Yugoslav revolutionary and Ulbricht, Walter, German communist politician, 46, 99, 100, 103, 112, politician, 322, 332 153, 189, 211, 330, 364 Urbanik, Kazimierz, Polish mathematician, Togliatti, Palmiro, leader of the Italian Wrocław professor, 225, 240, 241, Communist Party, 331 341 Tokarski, Julian, Polish geologist, 174 Tokarski, Julian, Polish lawyer and politician, 219, 249 Vaﬁadis, Markos, Greek communist general, Tokarzowa (née Cieluchówna), a daughter of 100 Cieluch Senior (see Volume 1), 354 Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur Trotski˘ı, Leon Davidovich, Russian-Jewish de, French marshal and military Bolshevik revolutionary, 52, 155, engineer, 82 262 Vaudrin, Philip, an editor with Oxford Truks, a mathematician, 176 University Press, 71, 80 Truman, Harry S., American politician, 31, 70, Vavilov, Serge˘ı Ivanovich, Soviet physicist, 55 93, 109, 115, 116, 136, 150, 152, Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y, 154, 180, 286 Spanish painter, 279 Trybuła, Stanisław, Polish mathematician and Vetulani, Adam Joachim, Polish law professor, statistician, Wrocław professor, 225, 219, 310 313 Vetulani, Kazimierz, Lwów physicist, 39 Trzebiatowski, Włodzimierz, Polish chemist, Vincenz, Stanisław, Polish novelist and 9, 35, 113 essayist, 105, 220, 241, 333 Tsankov, Aleksander Tsolov, Bulgarian fascist Vinogradov, Ivan Matveevich, Soviet number politician, 100 theorist, 55 Tuchołkowa, an acquaintance of the author, 43 Vinson, Frederick Moore, head of the US Tułasiewicz, Lilian (née Seymour), American Supreme Court, 69 novelist, 125 Voroshilov, Kliment Yefremovich, Soviet Turán, Pál, Hungarian mathematician, 162 military and political leader, 157, Turán, Vera (née Sós), wife of Pál, 234 214 Turáns, the family of Pál, 234 Vyshinski˘ı, Andre˘ı Yanuarevich, Soviet Turnau, Miss, Polish mathematician, 1 representative to the UN, 115, 175 Turowicz, Jerzy, Polish Catholic journalist, 326 Turówna, a Warsaw acquaintance of the author, 208 W., Hedi (née Frydman), a cousin of the author, Turski, Stanisław, Polish mathematician and 82 politician, 49, 148, 375 W., K., an acquaintance of the author, 129 Index of Names 401

Wacinski,´ Tadeusz, neighbor and friend of Whitehead, John Henry Constantine, British Dawidek Rubinowicz, 256 topologist, 103 Wahrhaften, a publisher, 23 Wicha, Władysław, Polish politician, 178 Wajda, Andrzej, Polish ﬁlm director, 223 Widy-Wirski, Teodor Feliks, Polish doctor and Wald, Abraham, Romanian-American communist politician, 333 statistician, 71 Wiener, Norbert, American mathematician, 36, Wałesa, ˛ Lech, Polish trade union organizer and 149, 234, 242, 247 politician, 143 Wiercinski,´ Andrzej, Polish anthropologist, Walham, an American mathematician, 71 207 Walker, Robert J., American mathematician, Wierzbicki, Witold, Polish mathematician, 77 144, 148 Wallace, Henry A., American politician, 93, 97 Wiesenthal, Simon, Austrian Nazi hunter, 373 Wallis, Wilson Allen, American statistician Wilhelm II, last German Kaiser, 194 and economist, 74 Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt, President Wilson’s Wankowicz,´ Melchior, Polish writer, 336, 338, widow, 69 339, 341, 345 Wilson, Harold, British politician, 372 Warchałowski, T., lawyer, 63 Wilson, Woodrow, American politician, 69 Ward, Olive, the English Ward’s wife, 13 Winiewicz, Józef, Polish ambassador to the Wards, an English couple, 13, 45 US, 72 Warmus, Mieczysław, Polish mathematician, Winiewiczowa, wife of Józef, 72 30, 32, 144 Winiewiczs, the family of Józef, 72 Warren, Earl, American chief justice, 333, 335, Wirszup, Izaak, Polish-American 337 mathematician and mathematical Warzecha, ˛ a former mayor of Grybów, 47 educationalist, 268 Wazyk, ˙ Adam, Polish writer and poet, 200, Wisłocki, Władysław T., a Lwów librarian, 39 223, 224, 326 Wisniewski,´ a Polish expert in quality control, Weaver, Warren, American mathematician and 58, 60, 137 science advocate, 216 Wisniewski,´ teacher at the Gymnasium, poet, W˛egrzecki, Polish announcer for Voice of 187 America, 134 Wisniewskis,´ the Warsaw family of the expert W˛egrzynski,´ Bogusław, a son of Jan Wisniewski,´ 63 W˛egrzynski´ (see Volume 1), 359 Witaszewski, Kazimierz, Polish major-general Weierstrass, Karl, German mathematician, 249 and Stalinist politician, 210, 260, Weigel, Józef, son of Kasper, 39 277, 281, 305, 312, 318 Weigel, Kasper, professor at the Lwów Witek, an engineer, 135, 275 Polytechnic, 39 Witkiewicz, Roman, professor at the Lwów Weishopf, director of the Department of Polytechnic, 39 Atomic Energy in Geneva, 330 Witkowa, wife of Witek, 275 Weishopfs, the family of Mr. Weishopf, 330 Witold, a cousin of the author, 311 Weiss, Ruth, a friend of Professor Schaefer, 35 Witos, Wincenty, Polish politician, 254 Weisses, the family of Ignacy Weiss (see Wittlin, Elisabeth, daughter of Józef, 79 Vol ume 1), 5 Wittlin, Józef, Polish novelist and poet, 79, 80, Weissówna, Helena (Hela), a cousin of the 286 author, 94 Wittlinowa, wife of Józef, 79, 286 Welfeld, Chaim-Joachim, father of Józef, 126 Wittlinówna (Winnicka), Wiktoria (Wikta), Welfeld, Isaac, uncle of Józef, 126 stepsister of Józef, 125, 150, 330 Welfeld, Józef, Polish chemist, 126 Wittlins, the family of Józef, 80, 81 Werfel, Roman, Polish communist apparatchik, Włosinski,´ a Polish engineer and plant 280 manager, 270 Wertheim, a Polish civil servant, 206 Wojciechowski, Stanisław, Polish diplomat and Weryha, Aleksander, Polish statistician, 138 politician, 254 Westphalen, Jenny von, wife of Karl Marx, Wojciechowski, Tadeusz, Polish painter and 216 architect, 14 Weyssenhoff, Jan, Polish physicist, 11 Wójcik, Stanisław, Polish politician, 37 402 Index of Names

Wold, Herman Ole Andreas, Hungarian-born Zariski, Oscar, Russian-Jewish-American Swedish econometrician, 78, 161, algebraic geometer, 78 224 Zaritskaya, Irina, Ukrainian pianist, 266 Wolibner, Witold, Polish mathematician, 59 Zarnecki,˙ Tadeusz, director of a Polish Wolska, Barbara, a friend of the Blumenfelds, government agency, 85 5 Zarzycki (Zaricki), Miron, Ukrainian Wolski, Władysław, Polish politician, 121, 142 mathematician, 45 Wright, Frank Lloyd, American architect, 287 Zawadowski, Witold Eugeniusz, Polish Wronski,´ Thaddeus, Polish-American radiology pioneer, 163 band-leader, 331 Zawadzki, Aleksander, Polish communist Wycech, Czesław, Polish politician and politician, 211, 325 historian, 22 Zawirski, Zygmunt, Polish philosopher and Wyka, Kazimierz, Polish historian and literary logician, 1 critic, 326, 329 Zelazny,˙ Józef, a Jasło physician, 9 Wysłouch, Seweryn, Polish law historian in Zel0dovich, Yakov Borisovich, Soviet Wrocław, 98 physicist, 203 Wyszomirski, Jerzy, Polish stage director, 338 Zglinska´ (Manczakowa),´ Barbara (Basia), Wyszynski,´ Stefan, Polish cardinal, 164, 294, daughter of the author’s sister Irena, 324, 358 26, 201, 306 Zglinski,´ Leonard, a lawyer, a brother-in-law of the author, husband of Irena, 107 Zgorzelska, Aleksandra, Polish editor, 47, 69, X, Colonel, an ofﬁcial with the Pentagon, 73 70, 110, 193, 203, 223 X, Mrs., a doctor’s widow, 234 Zhdanov, Andre˘ı Aleksandrovich, Soviet politician, 51, 52, 102, 155 Zhou Enlai, Chinese communist politician, Yuch Ming-yi, Chinese mathematician, 337 366 Zhukov, Georgi˘ı Konstantinovich, Soviet marshal and politician, 106, 123, Z., an unnamed versiﬁer, 114 137, 185, 214, 223 Z., Mr. and Mrs., acquaintances of the author, Zi˛eba, Andrzej, Polish mathematician, 94, 264 141 Zielinski,´ a Polish engineer, 104 Z., Mrs. (née Jasinska),´ a friend of Wikta Zielinski,´ Bronisław, Polish translator, 256 Wittlinówna, 125 Zielinski,´ Zygmunt, Polish military Z., Mrs., an Lwów acquaintance of the author, commander, 269 252 Zierhoffer, August, Polish geographer and Zabierowski, a representative of the wartime geologist, 142 Polish underground teaching Złotowski, Ignacy, Polish chemist, organization, 135 70, 165 Zaborski, a Polish merchant and bureaucrat, Zółkiewski,˙ Stefan, Polish literary historian 11, 18 and politician, 40, 174, 204, 225, Zagórski, Jerzy, Polish writer and poet, 266, 231 326 Zorin, Valerian Aleksandrovich, Soviet Zagórskis, the family of Jerzy, 11, 82, 231 diplomat and politician, 220, 221 Zambrowski, Roman, Polish-Jewish Zoshchenko, Mikhail Mikhailovich, Soviet communist politician, 266 writer of satirical short stories, 51, Zaremba, Jan, a teacher and owner of a 52 property in Stró˙ze Ni˙zne, 31, 62 Zubik, Edward, lecturer at Wrocław University, Zaremba, Karol, a brother of Jan, 28 283 Zaremba, Stanisław Krystyn, Polish Zubrzycki, Stefan, Polish mathematician, 127 mountaineer and mathematician, Zuławski,˙ Jerzy, teacher at the Gymnasium, son of Stanisław Zaremba Sr., 37, writer, 187 235, 236 Zuławski,˙ Juliusz, Polish writer, 223 Index of Names 403

Zuloaga y Zabaleta, Ignacio, Basque painter, Zygmund, Antoni, Polish-American 75 mathematician, 9, 30, 62, 73, 74, 76, Zurek,˙ husband of Dziutka Schoenbornówna, 93, 217, 220, 265, 268, 290, 291 33 Zyli˙ nski,´ Eustachy, Polish mathematical Zychiewicz,˙ Antoni M., son of Emil logician, 26, 41, 176 Zychiewicz˙ (see Vol ume 1), 59 Zymierski,˙ see Rola-Zymierski˙