Dwa listy Karola Małłka do Andrzeja Wakara (napisane w Krutyni 17 VII 1957 r. i Rudziskach Pasymskich 23 I 1958 r.)
Two letters from Karol Małłek to Andrzej Wakar (written in Krutynia 17/07/1957 and Rudziska Pasymskie 23/01/1958)

Summary/Abstract: The presented source materials come from the papers of the Olsztyn historian, journalist and publisher, Andrzej Wakar, which are lodged in the family archives of his heirs. This article discusses two letters addressed to Wakar from Karol Małłek. The documents date from 1957 and 1958 and tell us of the friendship which existed between these two men of culture who came from such different backgrounds: Wakar from the Warsaw intelligensia, Małłek from a simple family in Masuria. However, it is not this friendship that is the most important element in the above texts. They show, inter alia, the complicated relationships between the „King of Masuria”, as Małłek was called, and the Regional Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, the conflict between Małłek and another local Warmian activist, Jan Boenigk, and also the background to the celebrations which Karol Małłek organised at the Masurian People’s University.

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