Index of Names

A., Mrs. (née K. T.), and her family, 193Abrasimov, Piotr Andreevich, Soviet diplomat,

282Acheson, Dean, American politician, 117Ackermann, Anton, East German politician,

152Adams, Walter Sydney, American astronomer,

69Adamska, Krystyna (Krysia), daughter of

Stanisław, 3Adamski, Stanisław, a schoolfriend of the

author, 3, 40, 64Adenauer, Konrad Hermann Joseph, West

German politician, 191, 228, 260,261

Adjoubei, Alekseı, Soviet newspaper editor,306

Adjoubei, Rada, a daughter of Khrushchov andwife of Alekseı, 306

Adolf, brother of Stasia Blumenfeld, 5Aesop, ancient Greek fabulist, 51Afek, a lottery official, 270Agnew, Ralph Palmer, American

mathematician, 71Ahrensburg, a Chicago engineer with General

Electric, 75Akhmatova, Anna, Russian poet,

51, 52Aleksander II, tsar of Russia, 205Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich, Soviet

mathematician, 104, 161Aleksandrowicz, Julian, Polish medical

specialist, 173, 219Alexander the Great, Macedonian conqueror,

367

Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George,British field marshal and earl, 69, 89

Alexiewicz, Andrzej, Polish mathematician,55, 59

Alexits, Gyorgy, Hungarian mathematician,103, 112, 176

Alliluyeva, Nadezhda, Stalin’s second wife,183

Altendorf, an acquaintance of the author, 1Altschüler-Adamski, a New York acquaintance,

67Ambrose, Warren A., American

mathematician, 78, 79Ambroses, the family of Warren, 79Anders, Władysław, Polish general, 3, 236Anderson, an American physicist, UNRRA

representative, 17, 21, 22Andrzejewski, Jerzy, Polish writer, 223Andrzejewski, Marcin, son of Jerzy, 223Andrzejewskis, the family of Jerzy, 223Anisimov, a putative Soviet diplomat, 282Antonov, Alekseı Innokentievich, Soviet

military leader, 222Aristov, Averkiı Borisovich, Soviet politician

and diplomat, 282Arnold, Stanisław, Polish historian, 27, 48

B., a Polish engineer, 107B., an engineer and distant relative of Adolf

Szmosz, 263B., Dr. J., an acquaintance of the author, 300B., Fredek, an acquaintance of the author, 184B., Zosia, an acquaintance of the author, 189Bader, Karol, Polish diplomat, 5

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016H. Steinhaus, Mathematician for All Seasons, Vita Mathematica 19,DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23102-0

379

380 Index of Names

Baer, a Polish microbiologist, 168, 216Bain, Scottish father-in-law of Zbigniew

Łomnicki, 243Balzan, Angela Lina, daughter of Eugenio, 306Balzan, Eugenio, Italian newspaper magnate

and philanthropist, 306Banach, Stefan Jr., son of Banach, 180Banach, Stefan, illustrious Polish

mathematician, 45, 52, 53,56, 59, 122, 180, 208

Banachiewicz, Tadeusz, Polish astronomer andmathematician, 12

Banachowa, Łucja, wife of Banach, 44, 59, 180Banas, Tadeusz, Polish cultural activist, 240Banczyk, Stanisław, Polish politician, 37Baranowski, Tadeusz, Polish biochemist and

medical professor, 9, 21, 22, 181Baranski, Rajmund, Polish politician, 283Barghoorn, Frederick, Yale sociology

professor, 318, 319Bartel, Kazimierz Władysław, Polish

mathematician and politician, 39,254, 335

Bartłomiej of Jasło, a 14th century universityrector, 313, 350

Barycz, Henryk Michał, Polish historian andarchivist, 313

Barycz, Mrs., wife of Barycz, 313Battek, Jerzy, Polish mathematician, 341Batteman, Didi, a Dutch-American secretary,

287Bayes, Thomas, English mathematician, 58,

149Beck, Dr., a UNRRA representative, 40Beck, Józef, Polish politician and army officer,

279Beczkowski, Zygmunt, an engineer in

Wrocław, 48Ben Bella, Ahmed, Algerian president, 351Ben-Gurion, David, Polish-born Israeli

politician, 258, 266Ben-Uri, an Israeli mathematician, 167Beneš, Edvard, Czechoslovak political leader,

92, 97Bergaryn, a Warsaw Jew, 85Bergman, Stefan, Polish-American

mathematician, 78, 79Beria, Lavrentiı Pavlovich, Georgian-born

Soviet politician, 116, 143, 155,157, 158, 160, 165, 178, 185, 189,211, 214

Berliner, an American chemist, 286Berman, Jakub, Polish politician, 178, 200,

231

Bernadotte, Folke, Count of Wisborg, Swedishdiplomat, 221

Bernstein, Felix, German-Jewishmathematician, 71

Bevin, Ernest, British labour politician, 26Bharucha-Reid, Albert Turner, African-

American probabilist, 249Bialoguski, Michael, Ukrainian-born Polish-

Australian physician and secretagent, 234

Bidault, Georges, French politician, 154Bienkowski, Władysław, Polish communist

activist, 28, 39, 250Biernacki, Mieczysław, Polish mathematician

and chemist, 55, 59, 60Bierut, Bolesław, Polish communist political

leader, 115, 119, 122, 151, 159, 164,170, 178, 183, 191, 192, 203, 279,281, 314, 332

Birnbaum, Zygmunt, Polish-Americanmathematician, 23, 25, 171

Bismarck, Otto von, Prussian chancellor, 254Bismarck, Philipp von, German politician,

nephew of Otto, 349Blackwell, David Harold, African-American

mathematician and statistician, 71,78, 81, 104

Bloch, Maurycy (Morcio, Morys), a fellowstudent of the author’s daughter, 23,53, 56–58, 62, 78, 104

Blumenfeld (assumed name Noga), Jan, son ofIzydor, 5, 49

Blumenfeld, Izydor, a plant manager, friend ofthe Steinhauses, 5

Blumenfeld, Stanisława (Stasia), wife ofIzydor, 5, 240, 241, 323

Blumenfelds, the family of Izydor, 44Bobranski, Bogusław, Polish chemist, 181Bobrowski, Czesław, Polish economist,

118Bodenheim, Maxwell, American poet and

novelist, 166Bogdanowicz, a Polish physicist, 199Bois-Reymond, Emil du, German physician

and physiologist, 264Bois-Reymond, Paul du, German

mathematician, 264Bojarski, a Polish engineer, 340, 341Boltzmann, Ludwig, Austrian physicist and

philosopher, 36Bomba, owner of a guest house, 124Borejsza, Jerzy (born Benjamin Goldberg),

Polish-Jewish writer and communistactivist, 101, 183, 201

Index of Names 381

Bór-Komorowski, Count Tadeusz, Polishgeneral, 369

Borkowska, Countess, wife of the Borkowskiin Krynica, 126

Borkowski, Piotr, an acquaintance of theauthor, 14

Borkowski, Polish lawyer and owner of a guesthouse in Krynica, 126

Borowicz (or Horowicz), Alfred (Fredek),brother of Olga Pamm, 98

Borsuk, Karol (Kazimierz), Polishmathematician, 62, 97, 161, 171

Bortnowska, Halina, Polish philosopher,journalist, and human rights activist,325

Boumedienne, Houari, Algerian colonel, 351Boy-Zelenski, Tadeusz, prominent Polish

writer, translator, and poet, 39, 246,335

Brach, Miss, a Polish schoolteacher, 354Brandt, Willy, German politician, 365Bratter, a Lwów doctor, 41Brauchitsch, Walther von, German field

marshal, 315Brecht, Bertolt, German Marxist poet and

playwright, 101Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich, Soviet politician, 168,

337, 342, 346, 354, 366, 372Briand, Aristide, French politician, 108Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, French lawyer

and politician, epicure, 43Broniewski, Władysław, Polish poet, 163Bronk, Detlev Wulf, American biophysicist

and administrator, 286, 287Bronks, the family of Detlev Wulf, 286Bross, Wiktor, Polish surgeon and professor in

Wrocław, 98, 361Broszkiewicz, Jerzy, Polish writer, 14Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan, Dutch

mathematician and philosopher, 264Bruller, Jean Marcel (penname Vercors),

French writer, 193Brunowa, a representative of a Polish

government ministry, 65Bucholski, a Polish mathematician, 202Buddensieg, Frau, wife of Hermann, 241Buddensieg, Hermann Robert Karl, German

writer, polonist, 241Bukharin, Nikolaı Ivanovich, Russian

Bolshevik revolutionary, 155, 346Bulanda, Edmund Jan, Polish archaeologist, 36Bulganin, Nikolaı Aleksandrovich, Soviet

politician, 158, 185, 189, 199, 200,203, 205

Bürger, Gottfried August, German poet, 304Buridan, Jean, French priest and scientist, 242Burkhardt, Felix, German mathematician, 191Burton, Richard, British explorer, soldier,

writer, etc., 272Bush, Vannevar, American engineer and

science administrator, 69Bychowski, a Czech mathematician, 103Byrnes, James Francis, American politician,

45, 48

C., Professor, a colleague of the author,142

Caesar, Gaius Julius, Roman military andpolitical leader, 257, 360

Cantor, Georg, German-Jewish mathematician,71

Carroll, Lewis (actually Charles LutwidgeDodgson), English logician,mathematician, and writer, 265

Carter, James Earl (Jimmy), American farmerand politician, 301

Casimir II the Just, Polish duke, 207Casimir the Great, last Polish king of the Piast

dynasty, 149, 207Castro, Fidel, Cuban communist revolutionary

and dictator, 291, 364Catherine the Great, empress of Russia, 39,

267Ceausescu, Nicolae, Romanian communist

politician, 365Cech, Eduard, Czech mathematician, 103Cedergren, Mrs. (née Countess Elsa

Bernadotte), a sister of Count FolkeBernadotte, 221

Césaire, Aimé Fernand David, poet, writer, andpolitician from Martinique, 102

Cézanne, Paul, French painter, 65Chadyk, a Kraków radiologist, 6Chambers, Whittaker, American former

communist and accuser of Hiss,117

Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, Indian-bornAmerican astrophysicist, 220

Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, 185Chen-pin, a Chinese graduate student of the

author, 243, 316, 337Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese political and

military leader, 5, 106, 109, 112,114, 154

Chlebowska, a masseuse, 188Choibalsan, Khorloogiin, Mongolian general

and political leader, 155

382 Index of Names

Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek (FrédéricFrançois), Polish composer andvirtuoso pianist, 80, 186, 266

Choquet, Gustave, French mathematician, 42,52, 53, 59, 60, 62

Chudek, a Czechoslovak diplomat, 118Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 313Churchill, Sir Winston, British politician, 14,

31, 95, 154, 157, 169, 188, 313, 345Chwistek, Leon, Polish painter and

mathematician, a brother-in-law ofthe author, 187

Chylinski, a US consulate official in Warsaw,64, 281

Cieluch, Lola, a daughter of Cieluch Senior(see Volume 1), 26

Cieluch, Tadeusz, a son of Cieluch Senior (seeVolume 1), 354

Cieluch, Zofia (Zosia), a daughter of CieluchSenior (see Volume 1), 26

Cieszynski, Antoni, Polish physician, surgeon,and stomatologist, 39, 42

Cieszynski, son of Antoni, 42, 48Clark, Mark Wayne, American general,

146Clebsch, Rudolf Friedrich Alfred, German

mathematician, 249Clementis, Vladimir, Slovak communist

politician, 153Condon, Edward Uhler, American physicist,

72Conrad, Joseph, Polish-born English novelist,

129, 256Corday, Charlotte, Marat’s assassin, 110Corvinus, Matthias, king of Hungary and

Croatia, 362Coty, René Jules Gustave, French politician,

165, 233Courant, Nina, Richard’s wife, daughter of

Runge, 264Courant, Richard, German-American

mathematician, 264, 265Cowles, Alfred, American businessman and

economist, 75Coxeter, Harold Scott MacDonald, English-

Canadian geometer, 78Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford, British

ambassador to the USSR, labourpolitician, 232

Crowther, James Gerald, British journalist andscience populariser, 130

Curie-Skłodowska, Marie, Polish-Frenchphysicist and chemist, 108

Curtis, John Hampton, a statistician with theUS National Bureau of Standards,71, 72

Cwiklinski, Jan, Polish ship’s captain, 159Cynkin, Tadeusz, a Polish colonel, 316Cyrankiewicz, Józef, Polish communist

politician, 165, 204, 205, 211, 229,231, 240, 307, 326, 328, 329, 340,342, 353, 375

Cz., a Polish geographer, 123Czekanowski, Jan, Polish anthropologist and

statistician, 32, 127, 248, 355, 368Czesówna, Nina, a resident of Berdechów, 6Czetwertynska, an official of the Belgian

legation in Poland, 251Czetwertynski-Swiatopełk, a professor and

member of an aristocratic Polishfamily, 313

Czyzewski, Julian, Polish geographer, 62, 172,192

D., Mrs., an acquaintance of the author, 200Dabrowska, a Jasło acquaintance of

Swiderska’s mother, GeneralDabrowski’s widow, 263

Dabrowska, Maria, Polish writer and humanrights activist, 98, 99, 102, 326, 336,339

Dabrowski, General Jarosław, Polishcommander in the Paris Commune,263

Dalai Lama, chief guru of Tibetan buddhism,291

Dale, Sir Henry, British scientist, 55Daniels, Mark, British physiologist, 36, 37, 49d’Annunzio, Gabriele, Italian poet and

novelist, 162Dante Alighieri, illustrious Italian poet, 79Darboux, Gaston, French mathematician, 358Daub, book-buyer for Stechert & Co., 80Davenport, Harold, British number theorist,

312Davydov, Aleksandr Sergeevich,

Ukrainian/Soviet physicist,134

Dawidowa (née Weiss), a cousin of the author,94

Dawidowicz, Stanisław, husband of AlinaDawidowiczowa (see Volume 1),258

Dawidówna, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Dawidowa,94

Index of Names 383

De Morgan, Augustus, English mathematician,280

Debré, Michel, French politician, 233Debski, an official in the Polish Department of

Education, 31Dejmek, Kazimierz, Polish stage director, 374Dekierkunst, a member of Hirszfeld’s institute,

216Dembowski, Jan Bohdan, Polish biologist, 23,

137, 182, 209Demko, Katarzyna, Polish teacher of English,

261Denisot, a mathematician, 55Denjoy, Arnaud, French mathematician, 52, 53Dickens, Charles, English novelist, 13, 360Dietrich, an engineer, 179Dietzius, Aleksander, Polish engineer, 53Dietzius, daughter of Aleksander, 53Dimitrov, Georgi (or Georgi Dimitrov

Mikhaylov), Bulgarian communistpolitician, 100, 155

Dionysius II, Syracusan tyrant, 371Dirichlet, Johann P. G. Lejeune, German

mathematician, 249Dittersdorf, Anita, a niece of the author’s wife,

10, 26, 29, 30, 62, 73, 82, 212Dittersdorf, Helena (née Szmoszówna), sister

of the author’s wife, 10Dittersdorf, Leon, a brother-in-law of the

author’s wife, Helena’s husband, 10,82

Dixon, Jeremiah, English surveyor, 81Dobrowolski, Antoni Bolesław, Polish

geophysicist and explorer, 49Dobrzaniecki, Władysław, Lwów surgeon,

39Dobrzanski, Jan, an acquaintance of the author,

49Dodds, Harold Willis, president of Princeton

University, 69Domann, a Polish engineer, 95, 163Doroszewski, Witold Jan, Polish linguist, 331Dostoevskiı, Fyodor Mikhailovich, Russian

writer, 110Douglas, George Norman, British writer, 79Douglas-Home, Alec, British politician, 314Dowling, Captain, an official in the US

Department of the Navy, 73Drayer, Captain, an official in the US

Department of the Navy, 73Drewnowski, Jan, Polish economist, 49Drobner, Bolesław, mayor of Wrocław, 103Drobot, Stefan, Polish mathematician, 144,

201, 216, 232, 253

Drzymała, Michał, Polish peasant become folkhero, 253

Dubcek, Alexander, Czechoslovak politician,373, 376

Duclos, Jacques, French Stalinist politician,146

Duda, Roman, Polish mathematician, 9, 11, 16,161, 180, 258, 335

Dudziks, the family of Dudzik, a neighbor inBerdechów (see Volume 1), 354

Dumas, Mlle, daughter of Mme Dumas, 82Dumas, Mme, a Grenoble landlady, 10, 30, 82Duval, a son of Mania Michałkówna, 33Dworakowski, Władysław, Polish politician,

178Dykiert, a Polish engineer, 258Dywan, Stanisław, an inhabitant of Stróze,

135, 275Dzerzhinskiı, Feliks Edmundovich,

Belorussian director of OGPU, 311Dzhan Dzo-i, a Chinese graduate student of the

author, 316Dzhugashvili, Vasiliı Iosifovich, Stalin’s son

by his second wife, 183Dzhugashvili, Yakov Iosifovich, Stalin’s son

by his first wife, 183Dzieduszyckis, Wrocław acquaintances of the

author, 179Dziedzianowiczówna, Wanda, an acquaintance

of the author, 125, 282Dziedzic, Jan, Polish journalist, 216Dziewulska, a niece of Wacław, 172Dziewulska, Mrs., daughter of Stefan

Dziewulski, 243Dziewulski brothers, Wacław and Władysław,

187Dziewulski, Stefan, Polish lawyer and

economist, brother of Wacław andWładysław, 243, 244

Dziewulski, Wacław, Polish physicist, 172, 243Dziewulski, Władysław, Polish astronomer and

mathematician, 243

Eaton, Cyrus Stephen, Canadian-bornAmerican banker and businessman,239

Eddington, Sir Arthur, British physicist, 226Eden, Robert Anthony, British politician, 185,

188, 203Egerváry, Jeno, Hungarian mathematician,

120, 162Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigorievich, Soviet writer,

101, 306, 318

384 Index of Names

Eichmann, Adolf Otto, German SS-Obersturmbannführer, 276,281

Eilenberg, Samuel, Polish-Americanmathematician, 62, 70, 71, 78, 81

Einstein, Albert, illustrious German-Americanphysicist, 69, 209, 226

Eisenhower, Dwight D., American military andpolitical leader, 69, 93, 150, 152,154, 156, 160, 183, 185, 231, 245,265, 267

Elert, Alfred J., a Warsaw tailor, 334Elfving, Erik Gustav, Finnish mathematician

and statistician, 176Eliot, T. S., American-British poet, 70Elisabeth of Bavaria, consort of King Albert I

of Belgium, 186Elizabeth II, queen of the British

Commonwealth, 159Elmer, Benedykt, a Polish diplomat, 97Emelianova, Irina, daughter of Ivinskaya, 280Engels, Friedrich, German social scientist and

political theorist, 138, 240Erdos, Paul, Hungarian mathematician, 74, 234Erhard, Ludwig, West German politician, 349Ernst (Eryan), Jan, Polish geographer and stage

performer, 168Ernst, Zofia (née Kostanecka), an acquaintance

of Lidka and wife of Jan Ernst, 168Estreicher, Karol Jr., Polish art historian, 326,

329, 375

F., Mr. and Mrs., a couple encountered inKrynica, 139, 140

F., Stanisław (Staszek), an engineer, 178Faber, Władysław (Władek), a former servant

of the Steinhauses, 29Fadeyev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, Soviet

writer, 102Fajanses, the family of Kazimierz Fajans (see

Volume 1), 286Falski, Marian, a Polish academic, 329Farouk I, king of Egypt, 141Fast, Henryk, Polish-American mathematician,

94Faure, Edgar, French politician and historian,

185Fawzi, Mahmoud, Egyptian diplomat and

politician, 210Fejgin, Mieczysław, Polish internist, 333Feller, William, Croatian-American probabilist,

10, 12, 13, 25, 36, 46, 56, 62, 70–72,77, 78, 149

Fermi, Enrico, Italian physicist, 74, 209Finkelstein, a student of the author in Wrocław,

94Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer, English statistician

and geneticist, 149Fisz, Marek, Polish probabilist and statistician,

171, 176Flaubert, Gustave, French novelist, 187Fleck, Ludwik, Polish doctor and biologist, 5,

9, 18, 25, 27, 28, 57, 167, 215, 226Fleming, Sir Alexander, Scottish

pharmacologist, 23, 132Florek, Kazimierz, Polish mathematician, 122,

127Florian, patron saint of Linz, 356Forrestal, James Vincent, American politician,

93Fortet, Robert, French mathematician, 176Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon, French physicist,

55Fowler, William Alfred, American nuclear

physicist, 220Franco, Francisco, Spanish general and

dictator, 183Frank, Annelies Marie (Anne), young

German-born wartime diarist, Nazivictim, 257

Frank, Jacob, a Jewish messianist, 153Frank, Otto Heinrich, German-born Dutch

businessman, father of Anne, 257Franz Joseph I, Austrian emperor, 126Fréchet, Maurice, French mathematician, 176Frederick the Great, Prussian king, 254Fredericks, an official of the US Patents Office,

72Freisler, Roland, Nazi judge, 227Friedman, Milton, American economist, 74, 75Friedrich, Archduke, Duke of Teschen,

member of the House of Habsburg,279

Fuad I, king of Egypt, 141Fuad II, last king of Egypt, 141Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, German-British

physicist and atomic spy, 239Fulinska, wife of Benedykt, 44Fulinski, Benedykt, Polish biologist, 44

G., an assistant of the author, 252G., Dr., an acquaintance of the author, 127G., Mr., and his Ukrainian wife, 255G., Mr. B., an acquaintance of the author, 329G., Mr., representative of Chelsea Publishing

Co. in New York, 80

Index of Names 385

G., Willi von, husband of the author’s cousinHedi W., 83

Gaillard, Félix d’Aimé, French politician, 233Gałczynski, Konstanty Ildefons, Polish poet,

165Galgótzy, Anton von, a general in the Imperial

Austrian Army, 276Gamski, Mieczysław, Polish physician and

medical professor, 57Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, preeminent

leader of the Indian independencemovement, 291

Garber (alias Baltch), Joy Ann, Soviet spy ofPolish origin, wife of AlexanderSokolov, 339

Garbinski, Tadeusz, a Wrocław professor ofmedicine, 327, 328, 332, 336

Garlicka, Wanda (née Cieluch), a daughter ofCieluch Senior (see Volume 1), 1, 26

Garwolinska (née Ostaszewska), anacquaintance from Iwonicz, 45

Gaugler, Kurt, director of an Interlakenboarding-school, friend of Vincenz,333

Gaulle, Charles de, French general andpolitical leader, 137, 154, 185, 204,232, 233, 266, 267, 271, 303, 345,354

Gauss, Carl Friedrich, illustrious Germanmathematician, 25

Gdula, a Wrocław master’s student, 315Gede, Tadeusz, Polish politician, 249Gel0fand, Israel Moiseevich, Soviet

mathematician, 236Geminder, Bedrich, Czechoslovak communist

politician, 153Gentz, Walter, German governor of the Jasło

district 1940–44, 349George, David Lloyd, British politician of

Welsh background, 278Gero, Erno, Hungarian politician, 202Getynska (née Poratynska), a Lwów

acquaintance of the author, 38Giedroyc, Jerzy, Polish writer and political

activist, 257Gierszewski, Stanisław, Polish physician,

37Gieysztor, Aleksander, Polish historian, 329Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean, French novelist

and playwright, 372Gładysz, Stanisław, Polish mathematician,

322, 330, 332, 340, 341Glatzel, Jan, Polish surgeon, 6

Gleichgewicht, Bolesław, Polishmathematician, Wrocławprofessor, 232, 262, 329

Glushchenko, Ivan E., Soviet biologist, 104Gnedenko, Boris Vladimirovich, Soviet

mathematician, 44, 59, 172, 176,177, 233, 236, 240

Gödel, Kurt, Austrian-American logician andmathematician, 244

Godlewicz, Marian, a Lublin chemist, 124Godlewski, Aleksander Lech, Polish

anthropologist, 343Goebbels, Joseph, German politician, 89Goetel, Walery, Polish geologist, 313Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, illustrious

German poet, 8, 52, 305Goetz, Abraham, Polish-American

mathematician, 94Gofron, a German technician, 33Golanski, Henryk, Polish engineer and

politician, 272Gold, Harry, American chemist and atomic

spy, 239Goldschlag, Franciszek, a former Lwów

dermatologist, 234Gombrowicz, Witold Marian, Polish novelist,

317Gomułka, Władysław, Polish politician, 42,

100, 103, 116, 133, 138, 139, 156,178, 182, 183, 192, 203, 206, 210,211, 213, 215, 221, 231, 243, 250,263, 277, 281, 307, 310, 314, 318,323, 324, 326, 328, 336, 340, 342,345, 347, 348, 352, 357, 366, 367,375

Gorayska, Anna (née Mycielska), wife ofDymitr, 43

Gorayska, mother of Dymitr, 43Gorayski, a brother of Dymitr, 43Gorayski, Dymitr, business partner of the

author’s father, 43Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, Soviet

politician, 280Gorky, Maxim, Russian/Soviet writer, 155Górny, Stanisław, Polish civil servant, 206, 248Górska, Antonina, daughter of Professor

Handelsman, 371Górska, Halina, Polish writer and communist

activist, 240Górski, Konrad Józef, Polish historian and

literary theorist, 174, 326, 329Göth, Amon, Nazi concentration camp

commandant, 62

386 Index of Names

Gottwald, Klement, Czechoslovak communistpolitician, 156

Grabowski, Witold, a radiology expert andWrocław professor, 21, 25, 32, 57,100

Gradstein, Alfred, Polish composer, 160Greczek, Stefan, father of Stefan Banach Sr.,

180Green, an official with the Picker Co., 70Grek, Jan, Lwów professor of medicine, 39,

335Grekowa, Maria, wife of Jan, 39Grell, Heinrich, German mathematician, 177Grell, Mrs., wife of Heinrich, 177Greniewski, Henryk, Polish mathematician,

85, 199Greniewskis, the family of Henryk, 85Grochowski, Jerzy, Polish dendrologist, 110Gröer, Franciszek, Polish pediatrician and

medical scientist, 41, 167, 199, 261Gromyko, Andreı Andreevich, Soviet

politician, 136, 189, 314, 366Gross, Ernest A., American diplomat, 147Groves, General Leslie R., construction head of

the Los Alamos research complex,75, 76

Grus, Kazimierz, Polish cartoonist andillustrator, 38

Grzedzielski, Jerzy, Polish medical professor,39

Grzegorczyk, Andrzej, Polish mathematicallogician, 171

Guggenheim, Solomon R., American artcollector and philanthropist, 287

Gumilev, Lev Nikolaevich, Russian-Soviethistorian and ethnographer, 52

Gumilev, Nikolaı Stepanovich, Russian poet,52

Gurevich, Mikhail Iosifovich, Soviet aircraftdesigner, 128

Guze (Guzówna), Joanna, Polish writer andtranslator, 56, 82

Gwiazdomorski, Jan, Polish law professor,219

H., Ada, an acquaintance of the author, 58H., St., Professor, an acquaintance of the

author, 132, 196Habsburgs, dynasty ruling the Austro-

Hungarian Empire, 362Hajós, Gyorgy, Hungarian mathematician, 162Halder, Franz, German general, 315Halinka, an acquaintance of the author, 43

Haller de Hallenberg, Józef, Polish militarycommander, 269, 289

Halley, Edmond, English astronomer andmathematician, 10

Halmos, Paul Richard, Hungarian-Americanmathematician, 74

Hamerski, Edward, head internist veterinarianin Lwów, 39

Hammarskjöld, Dag, Swedish diplomat andeconomist, 210

Hampel, a Czech statistician, 172Handelsman, Marceli, Polish historian, 371Hanska, Jadwiga, Polish film actress, 240Haraschin, see Polan-HaraschinHaraschinowa, I., wife of Polan-Haraschin,

310, 318Hardenberg, von, German countess, 264Harriman, William Averell, American

politician, 314Harris, Frank, Irish-born American author,

editor, and publisher, 181Hartman, Stanisław, Polish mathematician, 9,

129, 161, 277Hartmans, the family of Stanisław, 41Has, Wojciech Jerzy, Polish film director, 302Hašek, Jaroslav, Czech satirical writer, 228Hecke, Erich, German mathematician, 64Heisenberg, Werner, German physicist, 105Helson, Henry, American mathematician, 96,

235Hemar, Marian (born Jan Maria Hescheles),

Polish-Jewish journalist, poet, andsong-writer, 236

Hemingway, Ernest, American novelist, 118,256

Hen, Józef, Polish writer and screenwriter, 224Henzel, Baron, a rich aristocrat from Łódz, 188Herglotz, Gustav, Bohemian-born German

mathematician, 191Hermann, Paul, a German technician, 21, 32Herter, Christian Archibald, American

politician, 265, 267Hertz, Paweł, Polish writer, 223, 326Hewitt, Carol, wife of Edwin, 77Hewitt, Edwin, American mathematical

analyst, 74, 77Hewitts, the family of Edwin, 76, 77Hilarowicz, Henryk, Lwów professor, surgeon,

39Hilbert, David, illustrious German

mathematician, 264Hille, Einar, Swedish-American

mathematician, 78Hilton, Conrad, American hotelier, 77

Index of Names 387

Himlowa, a Polish medical researcher, 370Hirszfeld, Ludwik, Polish microbiologist, 9,

15, 16, 25, 27, 105, 120, 131, 138,143, 147, 173, 174, 181, 186, 190,198, 199

Hirszfeldowa, Hanna, wife of Ludwik, 138,186

Hirszfelds, the family of Ludwik, 32Hiss, Alger, American lawyer, government

official, and alleged Soviet spy, 117Hitler, Adolf, 8, 35, 132, 155, 176, 194, 206,

227, 232, 239, 315, 317, 327, 340,358, 366

Hlond, August, Polish cardinal, 110Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese communist leader,

179Hoffmann, Carl Adolf Maximilian, German

World War I general, 126Hogg, Quintin McGarel, Baron Hailsham,

British politician, 314Hölder, Otto Ludwig, German mathematician,

191Hölderlin, Johann Friedrich, German lyric

poet, 8Hollender, Tadeusz, Polish humorist and poet,

240, 241Holzer, Adela (Ada), daughter of Lila, 12Holzer, Lila, a cousin of the author’s wife, 1,

12Hoover, Herbert, American politician, 69Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Roman

lyric poet, 227Horodynski, Dominik, a Polish journalist, 65Hubert, an acquaintance of the author, 14Hulin, director of a US oil refinery, 73Hulka-Laskowski, Paweł, Polish writer,

translator, and social worker, 181Hurewicz, Witold, Polish-American

mathematician, 62, 79Hurewiczs, the family of Witold, 79Hurwitz, Wallie Abraham, American

mathematician, 71Huskowska, Anna, Polish mathematician, wife

of Tadeusz, 258Huskowski, Tadeusz, Polish mathematician,

94, 253Huxley, Aldous, English novelist, 101Huxley, Julian, English biologist and

internationalist, 101, 102

I., Dr., a Wrocław University alumnus, 212Indruch, head of the Indruch household, 46Indruchowa, an aunt of Danuta Smalewska, 46

Indruchs, a Lwów family, friends of theSteinhauses, 46

Infeld, Leopold, Polish physicist, 26, 121, 138,143, 174, 209, 212, 213, 244, 273,326, 329

Ingarden, Roman Witold, Polish philosopherand engineer, son of Roman Kajetan,1

Ivanov, a student of Lysenko, 168Ivanov, Igor0 , alleged Soviet spy, 319Ivinskaya, Ol0ga Vsevolodovna, Russian poet,

mistress of Boris Pasternak, 280,307

Iwanowski, A., a Wrocław student, 52Iwaszkiewicz, Bolesław, Polish mathematician

and politician, 314Iwaszkiewicz, Jarosław, Polish poet and

essayist, 182, 257

J., a Katowice engineer, 48J., Mr., Polish translator of Proust,

208Jabłonski, Henryk, Polish historian and

communist politician, 209, 272Jackowski, Tadeusz Gustaw, Polish diplomat,

184Jan II Kazimierz Waza, king of Poland, 231Jarecki, Franciszek, Polish pilot, 159Jarník, Vojtech, Czech mathematician, 53, 103Jarochowska, Maria, Polish socialist writer,

257Jaroszewicz, Alfred, Polish party functionary

and politician, 191Jaroszewicz, Piotr, Polish communist

politician, 346, 349Jaroszynski, Maurycy Zdzisław, law professor,

60Jasienica, Paweł (actually Leon Lech Beynar),

Polish historian and journalist, 199Jasinska, an official at Wrocław University, 27Jasinski, Jakub, Polish general, engineer, and

poet, 125Jastrun, Mieczysław, Polish-Jewish essayist

and poet, 223Jaworski, Władysław Leopold, Polish lawyer,

42Jaworski, Władysław, Polish poet, 44Jazwinski, Zdzisław, Polish pilot, 159Jedlicki, Witold, Polish socialist writer, 305,

312Jedlicz, Józef (actually Kapuscienski), teacher

at the Gymnasium, poet and critic,119, 187

388 Index of Names

Jefferson, Thomas, American revolutionaryleader, 72

Jeffreys, Sir Harold, English statistician andastronomer, 149

Jessen, Børge Christian, Danish mathematician,64, 161

Jezierska, a secretary and editor, 192John XXIII, Roman Catholic pope, 294, 306Johnson, Lyndon B., American politician, 317,

321, 326, 333, 339, 374Joliot-Curie, Frédéric, French scientist, 52,

101, 108, 130, 132, 148, 212, 224Joliot-Curie, Irène, French scientist, daughter

of Marie and Pierre Curie, 52, 101,108, 130

Joszt, Adolf, Polish chemist, 1Józwiak, Franciszek, Polish communist

politician, 206Jungk, Robert, Austrian writer, 239, 240

K., A., a professorial acquaintance of theauthor, 150

K., an acquaintance of the author, 134K., an alleged fraudster, 106K., Olga, a Bern acquaintance of the author, 83K., Teresa, a certain linguist’s daughter, 160,

174, 217Kac, Katarzyna (Katherine), wife of Marek

Kac, 23, 70, 77Kac, Marek (Mark), Polish-American

mathematician, 10, 12, 22, 25, 30,36, 37, 57, 58, 62, 70–72, 76, 224,235, 244, 247, 268, 285, 286

Kaczmarz, Stefan, Polish mathematician, 11,80

Kaczorowska, a Polish mathematician, 219Kádár, János, Hungarian communist politician,

213, 231, 336Kadyj, Henryk, brother of Józef, anatomy

professor in Lwów, 332Kadyj, Józef, a Jasło doctor, 332Kadyj, Stanisław, Polish eye specialist, son of

Józef, 313, 331, 350Kadyj, Zdzisław, another son of Józef, 332Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseevich, Soviet

politician, 211, 220Kajetanowicz, Dyonizy, Armenian prelate in

Lwów, 38Kajzerówna (or Keizerówna), Zofia, Polish

actress, 126Kalecka, wife of Michał, 267Kalecki, Michał, Polish economist,

197, 267

Kaluzhnin, Lev Arkadievich, Soviet algebraist,177

Kamienski, Michał, Polish astronomer, 5, 10Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich, Soviet physicist,

55, 203Kapłan, Salomea, wife of Kazimierz Fajans

(see Volume 1), 286Kaplansky, Irving, Canadian-American

algebraist, 74Kapuscienski, Jerzy, son of Józef Jedlicz, 119Kapuscinski, Witold Juliusz, Polish eye

specialist, Wrocław professor, 248Kapuscinskis, the family of Witold, 248Kármán, Theodore von, Hungarian-American

engineer and physicist, 67Karpf, Józef, a Jasło doctor, 40Karren, Tamara, a reporter encountered in

Krynica, 353Kasavubu, Joseph, Congolese president, 357Kasprowicz, Jan, Polish poet and playwright,

188Kasprzycki, Tadeusz, Polish general and

politician, 125Kaszewski, a Polish professor, 7Keldysh, Mstislav Vsevolodovich, Soviet

mathematician and physicist, 338Kellogg, Frank B., American politician, 108Kelus, Andrzej, Polish immunologist, 144, 226Kempisty, Czesław, son of Stefan, 50Kempisty, Stefan, Polish mathematician, 50Kempner, a judge, 189Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee, wife of John F., 321Kennedy, John F., American politician, 75,

210, 281, 282, 291, 301, 317,319–321, 333, 335, 337, 341

Kennedy, Robert, American politician, abrother of John F., 375

Khrushchov, Nikita Sergeevich, Sovietpolitician, 102, 156, 168, 185,189, 197–199, 202, 203, 208, 211,213, 214, 217, 220, 223, 240, 244,245, 255, 261, 262, 265–267, 271,282, 288, 291, 293, 301, 302, 304,306–308, 316, 317, 319, 325, 326,330, 332, 337, 338, 345, 346

Kiesinger, Kurt George, German Catholicpolitician, 365

Kijowski, Andrzej, Polish writer, 325Kirchmayer, Jerzy Maria, Polish historian and

military commander, 182, 203Kleiner, Juliusz, Polish literary historian, 111Kliszko, Zenon, Polish communist politician,

206, 312, 318, 336, 342, 366Klobassa, Stanisław Karol, oil entrepreneur, 43

Index of Names 389

Knaster, a sister of Bronisław, 23Knaster, Bronisław, Polish mathematician, 1,

4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 23, 25, 27, 49,51, 60, 97, 143, 180, 220, 277, 283

Knaster, Dr. Ludwik, father of Bronisław, 10,23

Knot, Antoni, Polish historian and WrocławUniversity librarian, 283

Kobylinski, a lottery player, 270Koch, Ilse, wife of Karl-Otto, 353Koch, Karl-Otto, concentration camp

commandant, 353Kochanski, a Polish engineer, 95Kofta, Maria, wife of Mieczysław, 18, 23, 24,

38Kofta, Mieczysław, a cultural activist in

postwar Poland, 18, 27, 33, 98Koftas, the family of Mieczysław, 18, 21, 33Kohn, a doctor, alleged victim of Garbinski,

328Kołakowski, Leszek, Polish philosopher, 324,

365Kolischerówna-Kapuscienska, Niusia, wife of

Jerzy Kapuscienski, 119Kołłataj, Hugo, Polish priest and historian, 138Kolmogorov, Andreı Nikolaevich, Soviet

mathematician, 103, 127, 161, 176,234, 236, 306

Kołodziejska (née Antecka), wife of Henryk,11

Kołodziejski, Henryk, Polish economist andhistorian, 11, 57, 127

Kołodziejski, Ryszard, son of Henryk, 11Kolski, an alleged spy, 96Komar, Wacław, Polish brigadier general, 139,

183, 211, 213Komornicki, Fr. Dr. Władysław, a Lwów

theologian, relative of theOstrowskis (see Volume 1), 39

König, a Viennese cardinal, 356Konopinski, Tadeusz, Polish zoologist, 15Kopec, Ada (née Halpern), Polish writer, 235Kopecs, the family of Ada, 235Kopernik (Copernicus), Mikołaj, Polish

astronomer and mathematician, 55,138

Korczynski, a lottery official, 270Korínek, Vladimír, Czech mathematician, 103Kornmehl, a son of Ezriel, 36Kornmehl, Ezriel, a Jasło physician, 36Kornmehl, son of Kornmehlowa, 118Kornmehlowa, an acquaintance of the author,

118Korowicz, Henryk, Lwów economist, 39

Kosciałkowska, Janina (née Wegrzynska), adaughter of Jan Wegrzynski (seeVolume 1), 359

Kosciuszko, Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura,Polish engineer and military leader,72, 121

Koskowski, Włodzimierz, Polishpharmacologist, 34

Kossak-Szczucka, Zofia, Polish writer andresistance fighter, 326

Kostrzewski, Józef, Polish archaeologist, 276Kosygin, Alekseı Nikolaevich, Soviet

politician, 168, 337, 342, 346, 354,365, 366

Kot, Stanisław, Polish historian and politician,5, 213

Kotarbinski, Tadeusz, Polish philosopher andlogician, 4, 25, 102, 244, 251, 262,278, 326, 329

Kott, Jan (Janek), Polish writer, professor, andthe author’s son-in-law, 10, 12, 23,28, 29, 45, 56, 61, 65, 101, 102, 113,142, 145, 147, 163, 184, 197, 203,212, 223, 231, 263, 324, 326, 328

Kott, Lidia Teresa, the author’s granddaughter,72, 101, 105, 113, 163, 173, 209,212, 231, 333

Kott, Michał, the author’s grandson, 166Kovan0ko, A. S., Soviet mathematician, 44Kowalczyk, surgical assistant, 6Kowalska, Anna (née Chrzanowska), Polish

novelist and diarist, 98, 99, 256,323, 326, 334

Kowalski, Jerzy, Polish writer and philologist,39, 40

Kowarzyk, Hugon, Polish physician andphysiopathologist in Wrocław, 25,32, 39, 48, 181, 186, 340, 361

Kowarzyks, the family of Hugon, 100Kozuchowski, Józef, professor of electrical

engineering in Wrocław, 61, 303Krajewski, a Polish diplomat, 186Kramarz, Mr. and Mrs., Lwów acquaintances,

67Kramer, Henryk, a Jasło acquaintance, 40Kramerowa, Greta, wife of Henryk, 40Krasinski, Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam

Feliks Zygmunt, illustrious Polishpoet, 187

Krassowska-Jodłowska, Eugenia, Polishpedagogue and politician, 64, 87,98, 112, 123, 143, 311, 312

Kraus, Karl, Austrian satirical writer, 188, 199,227, 321, 330

390 Index of Names

Krieger-Dunaij, Cypra Cecilia, Polish-Jewish-Canadian mathematician,28

Królikiewiczowa, Ziunia, sister of NiusiaKolischerówna-Kapuscienska, 119

Kroll, Alicja, wife of Eryk, 194Kroll, Eryk, owner of a guesthouse in Jastarnia,

193Kronski, Tadeusz Juliusz, Polish philosopher,

husband of Irena Krzemicka, 53Kruczkowski, Leon, Polish writer and

publicist, 262Krukowski, Włodzimierz, Polish scientist and

engineer, 39Krupp, German industrial dynasty,

340, 342Krygowski, Zdzisław, Polish mathematician,

55Krzemicka, Irena, an acquaintance of the

author, 53Krzywicka, Irena (née Goldberg), Polish writer

and feminist, 246Krzywicki, Andrzej (André) Tadeusz,

Polish-French physicist, son ofIrena, 246

Krzywicki, Andrzej, Polish mathematician,264

Krzyzanowski, Adam, Polish economist andpolitician, 218

Kubrakiewicz, Zbigniew, professor inWrocław, radiologist, 57

Kuchar, Helena, and her husband, a couplewho observed the Lwów massacreof professors, 261

Kuczewski, Władysław, Polish engineeringprofessor and politician, 4, 49

Kuczynski, E., Polish mathematician, 107Kuczynski, Henryk, Polish chemist, Wrocław

professor, 283Kukulska, wife of Kukulski, 257Kukulski, a Jasło merchant, 257Kukulskis, family of Kukulski, 257Kulczynska, wife of Stanisław, 29Kulczynski, Stanisław, Polish botanist and

politician, 4, 6, 9, 11, 25, 32, 34, 37,39, 48, 60, 102, 131, 148, 174, 186,190, 206, 261, 283, 334, 355, 357

Kulczynskis, the family of Stanisław, 8Kuncewiczowa, Maria, Polish writer, 344Kuratowski, Kazimierz, Polish mathematician,

56, 59, 110, 137, 138, 182, 209, 251,262

Kurfürsten, prince-electors of Brandenburg,176

Kuryłowicz, Jarosław, Polish engineer, 38, 52,56

Kuryłowicz, Jerzy, Polish linguist, 102Kuryłowiczs, the family of Jerzy, 44Kuryluk, Karol, Polish journalist and politician,

240Kwiatkowska, Mrs. Barbara, daughter of the

Earl of Dartmouth, 236, 313Kwiatkowski, a Polish-British engineer,

husband of Barbara, 312Kwiatkowskis, the family of Barbara, 312Kwiek, Marek, Polish physicist, 120

Ł., Adam, a Zakopane acquaintance, 243Ł., an acquaintance of the author, 131Ł., director of a workshop at the PAN

Mathematics Institute, 273Ł., J., an acquaintance of the author, 97L., Mr., putative Polish Minister of Justice, 203La Fontaine, Jean de, French poet and fabulist,

121Labuda, Aleksander, Kashubian writer, 194Labuda, Gerard, Polish historian, 194Lage, a member of the Hitlerjugend, 173Landau, Edmund, German-Jewish number

theorist, 264Lane, Arthur Bliss, American diplomat, 37Lange, Oskar Ryszard, Polish economist and

diplomat, 118, 120, 205, 267, 305Langerówna, a foundry official, 46Laska, Polish Police Commissioner for

Bobowa, 10Łaski, Colonel Zygmunt, Polish surgeon and

government official, 50, 56Latour, an engineer, 49Lauer, Henryk, Polish mathematician, 358Lavrientiev, Mikhail Alekseevich, Soviet

mathematician, 44Lawrence, David Herbert, English novelist and

poet, 163, 181Łazowski, a Polish pediatrician, 199Le Pen, Jean-Marie, French politician, 179Lebedev, Viktor Zakharovich, Soviet diplomat,

40Lechowicz, Włodzimierz, Polish politician,

133, 192, 212Lederer, Hugo, Austrian-born German

sculptor, 59Legge, William, Earl of Dartmouth, father-

in-law of Zbyszek Łomnicki,312

Lehár, Franz, Austro-Hungarian composer ofoperettas, 331

Index of Names 391

Lehm, Samuel, a Lwów pharmacist, 1, 145Lehm, son of Samuel, 1, 145Lehrer, Thomas Andrew, American singer-

songwriter and mathematician,244

Lelewel, Joachim, Polish historian andpolitician, 138

Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton von,Hungarian-German physicist, 105

Lenartowicz, an acquaintance of the author, 41Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 156, 240, 291, 304,

306, 365Lenkiewicz, an uncle of Maria Nosarzewska,

99Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 148Lepeshinskaya, Ol0ga Borisovna, Russian

revolutionary and Soviet medicalscientist, 134, 203

Leszczynski, Stanisław, a Polish officialinvolved in educational reform, 49

Levin, Leo, a Russian-Jewish doctor, 155Lévy, Paul Pierre, French probabilist, 171Lewicka, Wanda, Polish dentistry student, 101Lewin, an American pediatrician, 100Lichtenstein, Leon, Polish-German

mathematician, 59, 241, 264, 276Lilienthal, David Eli, chairman of the US

Atomic Energy Commission, 76Lille, Miss, an acquaintance of the author, 15Lincoln, Abraham, American politician, 321Lipinski, Edward, Polish economist, 326Lipinskis, the family of Edward, 354Lisocki, Stanisław, a relative of Ignacy

Steinhaus, 33Lloyd, John Selwyn Brooke, British politician,

210Lobachevskiı, Nikolaı Ivanovich, Russian

mathematician, 245Lomadze, George, Georgian mathematician,

104Lombroso, Cesare, Italian criminologist, 51Łomnicki, Adam, a son of Zbigniew, 236Łomnicki, Antoni, Polish mathematician, 39,

335Łomnicki, Zbigniew, Antoni’s nephew, Polish

mathematician, 235, 236, 243, 312Łomnickis, the family of Zbigniew, 313Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilievich, Russian

polymath, 240Longchamps de Bérier, Bronisław, a son of

Roman, 39Longchamps de Bérier, Franciszek, Polish

lawyer, a nephew of Roman, 218,325

Longchamps de Bérier, Kazimierz, a son ofRoman, 39

Longchamps de Bérier, Roman, Polish lawyerand professor, 39, 218

Longchamps de Bérier, Zygmunt, a son ofRoman, 39

Loria, Jadwiga (Jadwisia), daughter ofStanisław, 8, 50

Loria, Mrs. (née Słomnicka), wife of Stanisław,8

Loria, Stanisław, Polish physicist, 8, 9, 26, 31,41, 50

Łos, Jerzy, Polish mathematician, philosopher,and economist, 7

Louis XIV, French king, 82Lübke, Karl Heinrich, West German politician,

343Ludwig II, king of Bavaria, 287Łukasiewicz, Jan, Polish logician and

philosopher, 269Łukaszewicz, Józef, Polish mathematician,

144, 219, 249, 274Lumumba, Patrice, Congolese independence

leader, 271Lundkvist, Artur, Swedish writer and poet, 238Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich, Soviet biologist

and agronomist, 104, 113, 132, 134,148, 168, 173, 185, 198, 203, 340

M., a Wrocław Gymnasium student, 166M., M., Mr. and Mrs., acquaintances of the

author, 252M., Professor, a Wrocław colleague of the

author, 167MacArthur, Douglas, American military leader,

128, 131, 136, 154Mach, Ernst, Austrian physicist and

philosopher, 111Macharska, second wife of Polan-Haraschin,

310Mackiewicz, Stanisław, Polish conservative

writer, 326Macmillan, Harold, British politician, 314Maczewski, Stanisław, Lwów gynaecologist

and obstetrician, 39Madden, Ray John, American politician, 143Majski, a Polish biologist, 215, 226Makarewicz, Edward (Edzio), husband of

Lola, 12Makarewicz, Lola, a cousin of the author, wife

of Edward, 1, 12Makowski, a British college engineer, 312

392 Index of Names

Malenkov, Georgiı Maksimilianovich, Sovietpolitician, 155, 156, 158, 165, 185,186, 203, 214, 215, 220

Malewski, Tadeusz, a physician in charge of asanatorium in Rabka, 101

Malik, Yakov Aleksandrovich, Sovietdiplomat, 136, 147

Malinovskiı, Rodion Yakovlevich, Sovietmilitary commander and politician,223, 265

Manczak, Witold, Polish linguist, husband ofBarbara Zglinska, 306

Mandelbrojt, Szolem, Polish-Jewishmathematician, 242

Mann, Thomas, German novelist and shortstory writer, 132

Manski, Władysław, Polish immunologist, 215Mantel, Feliks, an employee in the Polish

embassy in Vienna, 97Mao Tse-tung, Chinese communist leader, 109,

114, 117, 128, 136, 184, 213, 316,364, 365, 367

Marat, Jean-Paul, Swiss-born French physicianand revolutionary, 110

Marchlewski, Teodor, Polish geneticist, 173Marciniak, Roman, Polish radiologist,

professor in Wrocław, 172Marczewska, Zofia (née Bursche), wife of

Szpilrajn-Marczewski, 7Marczewskis, the family of Szpilrajn-

Marczewski, 22Marschak, Jacob, Ukrainian-Jewish-American

economist, 77Marshall, George C., American general and

politician, 108, 180Martin, a British medical officer, 23Martinek, an American physicist and engineer,

248, 249Marx, Karl, German-Jewish economist and

philosopher, 138, 216, 218, 231,240, 365

Masaryk, Jan, Czech diplomat and politician,92, 153, 189, 376

Masaryk, Tomáš, Czechoslovak politicalleader, father of Jan, 92

Maselnikov, a Soviet diplomat, 216Maslakówna, Krystyna, an acquaintance of the

author, 174Mason, Charles, English surveyor, 81Matwin, Władysław, Polish communist

politician, 113, 182, 282, 314Maupassant, Guy de, French novelist, 187Maxwell, director of a London publishing firm,

235

Mayakovskiı, Vladimir Vladimirovich,Russian/Soviet poet and playwright,207

Mazur, Stanisław, Polish mathematician, 9, 34,44, 58–60

Mazurkiewicz, Stefan, Polish mathematician,268

Mazurkiewicz, Władysław, a Polish serialkiller, 201

McCarthy, Joseph Raymond, Americanpolitician, 102, 117

McCulloch, Warren Sturgis, Americanneurophysiologist and cybernetician,242

McMahon, Brian, American politician, 224Mead, Margaret, American anthropologist, 343Mehrer, a Lwów doctor, 46Mendel, Gregor Johann, Austrian friar and

geneticist, 112Mendès-France, Pierre, French politician, 179,

184Menz, a member of the Gestapo, 63Menzies, Robert, Australian politician, 234Metol, a Polish engineer, 85Michajłow, Włodzimierz, Polish parasitologist

and zoologist, 198Michałkówna, Mania, a Jasło acquaintance, 33Michałowski, Count Władysław, a Jasło

starosta, 124Michałowski, Stefan, a son of the starosta

Władysław, 124, 125Michelson, Albert, American physicist, 348,

349Michnik, Adam, Polish historian, essayist,

editor, and politician, 374Michurin, Ivan Vladimirovich, Russian/Soviet

botanist, 104, 113, 148, 185Mickiewicz, Adam, illustrious Polish poet,

110, 187, 241, 242, 374Mielczarkowa, a lottery player, 270Miesowicz, Adam, grandson of Adam Sołowij,

39Mieszko I, Polish medieval duke, 260Mijal, Kazimierz, Polish politician and

dissident, 361Mikołajczyk, Stanisław, Polish politician, 3,

37, 42, 43, 94, 118, 139Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich, Armenian-born

Soviet politician, 189, 211, 239Mikoyan, Artem Ivanovich, Armenian/Soviet

aircraft designer, 128Mikulski, Tadeusz, Polish literary historian,

41Mikusinska, wife of Jan, 186

Index of Names 393

Mikusinski, Jan, Polish mathematician, 60,145, 175

Milgrom, Feliks (Felix), Polish-Americanimmunologist, 215

Milicerowa, a Czechoslovak civil servant, 206Millers, a San Francisco couple, 65Minc, Hilary, Polish communist politician, 89,

97, 178, 197, 200Mises, Richard von, Austrian-American

applied mathematician, 79Mobutu, Joseph, Congolese major-general and

politician, 271, 357Mochnacka, Irena, Polish biologist, 41Moczar, Mieczysław, Polish communist

politician, 329Modzelewska, Lidia (Lidka), a friend of the

author, 4, 10Modzelewski, Zygmunt, Polish communist

politician, 91Moiseyev, Igor0 Aleksandrovich, Russian-

Jewish choreographer, 40Molenda, a Jasło Gymnasium teacher, 126Mollet, Guy, French socialist politician, 215Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, Soviet

politician, 45, 50, 114, 137, 157,175, 179, 196, 198, 211, 220, 221,291

Mond, Bernard Stanisław, Polish general ofJewish background, 216

Mond, Jerzy, Polish journalist, a son of BernardStanisław, 216

Montel, Paul, French mathematician, 12Montgomery, Bernard L., British marshal, 23Morawski, Jerzy, Polish communist politician,

249, 250Morgenstern, Oskar, German-American

economist, 171Morrison, Philip, American physicist, 76Moscicki, Ignacy, Polish chemist and

politician, 254, 279Mostowski, Andrzej, Polish mathematical

logician, 4, 59, 171, 280, 281Motchane, Léon, French mathematician of

Russian origin, 347Motyka, Józef, Polish botanist, 1, 146Mounier, a French physiologist, 286Müllerówna, Muta, a niece of the author,

Gustaw Müller’s daughter (seeVolume 1), 14, 37, 43

Murray, Francis Joseph, Americanmathematician, 78

Murray, Mrs., wife of Francis Joseph, 78Mussolini, Benito, 89

Mycielski, Andrzej, Polish law professor, 43,129

Mycielski, Count Jan, painter and grandfatherof the mathematician Jan Mycielski,14, 129

Mycielski, Jan, Polish-Americanmathematician, 129, 280,282

Mycielski, Jerzy, Polish physicist, 274, 275Mydlarski, Jan, Polish anthropologist, 146,

167, 203, 241Myszka, 8

Nacht (actually Prutkowski), Józef, Polishactor and writer, 57, 63, 168

Nachts, the family of Józef, 63Naguib, Muhammad, Egyptian military and

political leader, 141, 155Nagy, Imre, Hungarian communist politician,

211Nałkowska, Zofia, Polish novelist, 3Napierała, Bolesław, Polish cycling champion,

122Napoleon I (Bonaparte), 131Napoleon III, French emperor, 263Nasser, Gamal Abdel, Egyptian military and

political leader, 141, 155, 210, 307,368

Nechludowa, a Czech statistician, 172Nehru, Jawaharlal, Indian politician, 156, 293Neizvestnyı, Ernst Iosifovich, Russian-

American modernist artist andsculptor, 308

Nekrasov, Viktor Platonovich, Soviet writer,301, 302, 318

Nencki, Wilhelm Marceli, Polish chemist andphysician, 138

Neumann, Carl Gottfried, Germanmathematician, 249

Neumann, John von, Hungarian-Americanmathematician, 70, 71, 78, 171

Newton, Isaac, illustrious English physicistand mathematician, 54, 98

Nexø, Martin Andersen, Danish writer, 130Neyman, Mrs., Infeld’s secretary, 174Nietzsche, Friedrich, German philosopher, 187Nikliborc, Władysław, Polish mathematician,

9, 53Nikodým, Otto, Polish mathematician, 1Nikodymowicz, a Kraków representative of the

Polish-French Institute, 42Nimitz, Chester William, US admiral, 69

394 Index of Names

Nitsch, Kazimierz, Polish linguist and slavist,144

Nixon, Richard M., American politician, 150,267

Noga, Stanisława (Stajda), a servant of theBlumenfelds, 44, 49

Norwid, Cyprian Kamil, Polish poet, dramatist,and painter, 242

Nosarzewska, Maria, mathematician atWrocław University, 99

Nowak, a mathematician, 176Nowak, Zenon, Polish communist politician,

206Nowicki, Jerzy, son of Witold, 39Nowicki, Witold, Lwów professor of anatomy

and pathology, 39

O., Jan, owner of a guest house in Krynica,352, 353

Oberländer, Ludwik (Lulu), a school-friend ofthe author, 323

Oberländer, Theodor, Nazi officer and Germanpolitician, 261

O’Brien, Daniel P., representative of theRockefeller Foundation, 51

Ochab, Edward, Polish communist politician,205, 211, 230, 375

Oderfeld, Jan, Polish mathematician, 104, 148,149, 224

Oderfeld, Mrs. (née Poznanska), wife of Jan,104

Odyss, Tadeusz, Polish engineer, 281Offord, Albert Cyril, British mathematician,

162Olszewicz, Bolesław, Polish geographer, 283Onyszko, a Ukrainian member of the Polish

security service, 201Oppenheimer, Julius Robert, American

physicist, 75Oppenheimówna, a friend of the author, 46Orlicz, Michał, directory of an observatory on

Kasprowy, 196Orlicz, Władysław Roman, Polish

mathematician, 9, 11, 55, 59,60, 107, 208

Orlicz, Zofia, Polish school teacher andphysicist, wife of Władysław, 108,175

Orska-Wtorzecka, Irena, Polish actress, 172,174

Orzechowicz, 283Osiecka, Agnieszka, Polish writer and poet,

339

Osóbka-Morawski, Edward, Polish politician,23, 47, 54, 138, 139

Ossowska, Maria, Polish sociologist and socialphilosopher, 329

Osternowa, wife of Tuszkiewicz, 6Ostrowska, a landlady in Władysławowo, 208Ostrowska, Jadwiga, wife of Tadeusz, 39, 261Ostrowski, Adam, Polish lawyer and diplomat,

29Ostrowski, Tadeusz, Lwów surgeon, 39, 261Oswald, Lee Harvey, US marine and assassin,

320, 328, 333, 335, 337, 341Oswald, Marina, wife of Lee Harvey, 320Otto, Edward, Polish mathematician, brother

of Franciszek Otto (see Volume 1),24

Owinski, Tadeusz Szczesny, Polish surgeonand stomatologist, 283

P., Miss M., an acquaintance of the author, 189P., Mr., an acquaintance of the author, 300Pac, Ludwik Michał, Polish general, 333Paderewski, Ignacy Jan, Polish pianist,

composer, and politician, 72Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza, Shah of Iran, 31,

137Pamm, Olga, a cousin of the author’s wife, 10,

82Pappus of Alexandria, last great Greek

mathematician of antiquity, 247Parandowski, Jan, Polish writer, 129, 326Parandziejówna, a Lwów treasury official, 46Parkinson, James, English doctor, 171Parnas, Jakub, Polish-Jewish-Soviet

biochemist, 14, 23, 27, 41, 51–54,113, 115

Parnas, Jan, son of Jakub, 49, 113, 115Parnas, Mrs., wife of Jakub, 51, 115Parnas, Mrs., wife of Jan, 113Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, Russian poet

and novelist, 52, 238, 280, 306Paszek, a resident of Grybów, 135, 275Paszkowski, Stefan, Polish mathematician and

computer scientist, 300Patalasówna, Maria, former tenant of the

Steinhauses, 242, 359Paul VI, Roman Catholic pope, 294Paustowski, Konstanty, writer, 14Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, Russian/Soviet

physiologist, behaviorist, 169Pearson, Egon, English statistician, 149Perkal, Julian, Polish mathematician, 96, 127,

324, 354, 355

Index of Names 395

Perron, Oskar, German mathematician, 64Petkov, Nikola Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician,

94Petriwski, a doctor, 41Petrov, Evdokia, wife of Vladimir, 234Petrov, Vladimir, Soviet diplomat assigned to

Australia, 234Petrusewicz, Kazimierz, Polish ecologist and

political activist, 173, 181, 186, 192,197, 198, 203

Pflimlin, Pierre Eugène Jean, French politician,185, 232, 233

Philip IV, Spanish king, 279Piasecki, Bolesław, Polish writer and politician,

266, 281, 294, 348Piast, a ruling Polish dynasty, 40Picard, Charles Émile, French mathematician,

249Picasso, Pablo, Spanish artist, 101, 287Picker, James, Russian-born American

entrepreneur, 73Piecuchówna, Maria, a student at Kraków

University, 135Pienkowski, Stefan, Polish physicist,

52, 102Pigon, Stanisław, Polish literary historian, 326,

329Pilat, Stanisław, Polish chemist at the Lwów

Polytechnic, 7, 19, 39Pilatowa, Ewa, chemistry docent in Lwów,

wife of Stanisław, 7, 18, 19Pilawski, Bronisław, Polish engineer and

economist, Wrocław professor, 242,243

Piłsudski, Józef Klemens, Polish marshal andpolitical leader, 54, 141, 170, 241,254, 269, 278

Pinay, Antoine, French politician, 184, 185Pineau, Christian, French resistance fighter and

politician, 185, 210Pirogov, Nikolaı Ivanovich, Russian scientist,

240Pirquet, Clemens Peter Freiherr von, Austrian

medical scientist, 36Pitts, Walter Harry, American logician and

psychologist, 242Plamitzer, an adjunct at Kraków University, 7Płowa, Franciszka, Banach’s foster mother,

180Pociegl, a worker at the Kraków power station,

107Podgornyı, Nikolaı Viktorovich, Soviet

politician, 366Poe, Edgar Allan, American writer, 286

Poincaré, Henri, illustrious Frenchmathematician, 249, 358

Poisson, Siméon Denis, French mathematician,240, 241

Pol, Balthazar van der, Dutch engineer andphysicist, 247

Polan-Haraschin, Julian, Polish lawyer andarmy officer, 309–311, 316, 318,324, 356

Polda, an acquaintance of the author, 1Politowskis, acquaintances of the author, 126Pollard, Harry, American mathematician, 71Pólya, George, Hungarian-American

mathematician, 78Pomian, Stefan, Polish translator, 181Poniatowski, Stanisław August, last king of

Poland, 170, 267Ponomarenko, Panteleımon Kondratievich,

Soviet general and politician, 209Popiel, Antoni, Polish sculptor, 72Popiel, Karol, Polish politician, 47Porebowicz, Edward, Polish literary scholar

and poet, 188Porebski, a Polish professor, 7Potocka, Countess Ira, a Polish sculptress, 126Potocki, Ignacy, former owner of Rymanów,

near Jasło, 43Powers, Francis Gary, American airforce pilot,

265Pozner, a Kraków acquaintance, 4Progulski, Andrzej, son of Stanisław, 39Progulski, Stanisław, a Lwów pediatrician, 39Proszek, Marian, Polish railroad official and

German guard, 62Proust, Marcel, French novelist, 208, 213, 350Przewirski, a Polish engineer, 35Przybos, Julian, Polish essayist and poet, 83Przybyszewski, Stanisław, Polish poet and

writer, 65Putrament, Jerzy, Polish writer, poet, and

politician, 203

Rabi, Isidor Isaac, Galician-born Americanphysicist, 286

Rabinowicz, a Polish engineer, 14Raczynski, husband of Jadwiga Loria, 8Radkiewicz, Stanisław, Polish/Soviet

communist activist, 156, 178, 183Radon, Johann, Austrian mathematician, 161Radziwiłł, Ferdynand, a medical student

encountered in Jastarnia, 195Rajk, László, Hungarian communist politician,

114, 197, 202, 211

396 Index of Names

Rákosi, Mátyás, Hungarian communistpolitician, 114, 202

Rapacki, Adam, Polish politician and diplomat,204, 281, 291, 329, 357

Rapp, von, a German colonel, 193Rasiowa, Helena, Polish mathematical

logician, 171Rasmussen, Emil, Danish writer, 127Reagan, Ronald, American film actor and

politician, 239Rees, Mina Spiegel, American mathematician,

73Rellich, Franz, Austrian-Italian mathematician,

264Rencki, Roman, Polish professor of medicine,

39Rényi, Alfréd, Hungarian mathematician, 162,

172, 176Rhee, Syngman, South Korean politician, 136,

159Rhodes, Ida, an official at the US Bureau of

Standards, 71Ribbentrop, Joachim von, German foreign

minister, 114Richmond, an American diplomat, 281Ridgway, Matthew Bunker, American general,

136, 146Riemann, G. F. Bernhard, illustrious German

mathematician, 249Riesz, Marcel, Hungarian-Swedish

mathematician, brother of FrigyesRiesz (see Volume 1), 74

Robbins, Herbert Ellis, Americanmathematician and statistician, 78

Robeson, Paul, African-American singer, actor,athlete, and scholar, 102

Rockefeller, John D., American businessmagnate and philanthropist, 285,288

Rockefeller, John D. Jr., son of John D. Sr.,287

Rogala, Wojciech, Polish geologist, 61Rogowski, B., a friend of Stanisław Vincenz,

241Rogowski, Stanisław, Polish poet, 241Roja, Bolesław, Polish military commander,

269Rokosinska (Głuszkiewiczowa), Halina,

daughter of Mrs. Rokosinska, 256,258

Rokosinska, Mrs., a Katowice acquaintance ofthe author, 256, 257

Rokossowska, wife of Konstanty,185

Rokossowski, Konstanty Ksawerowicz,Polish/Soviet general and politician,115, 121, 123, 132, 139, 210, 223

Rola-Zymierski, Michał, Polish communistmilitary leader, 54, 97, 139, 309

Rolski, an agricultural scientist in Wrocław, 95Romanov, the Russian pre-revolutionary ruling

dynasty, 214Romer, Eugeniusz, Polish geographer, 101Röntgen, Wilhelm, German physicist, 25, 32,

38Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, American

politician, 14, 93, 117, 285, 321Rosenberg, Ethel Greenglass, American

communist, wife of Julius, 160, 262Rosenberg, Julius, American communist,

alleged Soviet spy, 159, 262Rosenthal, Abraham Michael, New York Times

correspondent in Poland, 251Rosenzweig, J., a mathematician, 167Ross, Kenneth A., American mathematician,

74Rosser, J. Barkley, American logician, 71Rostworowskis, acquaintances of the author,

14Rózanski, Józef (born Josek Goldberg),

member of the Polish securityservice, 183, 201

Rubinowicz, Dawid (Dawidek), young Polishauthor of a wartime diary, 256, 257

Rubinowicz, Dawid, an Israeli chauffeur,cousin of Dawidek Rubinowicz, 258

Ruby, Jack, American night-club owner, 320,328, 333, 338

Rudenko, Roman Andreevich, Soviet lawyer,116

Ruebenbauer, Tadeusz, Polish agriculturalscientist, 96

Ruff, Adam, son of Stanisław, 39Ruff, Stanisław, Lwów surgeon, 39Ruffowa, Anna, wife of Stanisław, 39Runge, Carl, German mathematician, 264Runge, Stanisław, Polish veterinary scientist,

181Rusinek, Kazimierz, Polish politician, 373Rusk, David Dean, American politician, 317,

319, 320Russell, Bertrand, English philosopher and

logician, 23, 181, 372, 375Rutkowski, Adam, Polish editor, 257Rutkowski, Romuald, a Wrocław student, 59Ruziewicz, Stanisław, Polish mathematician,

39, 335Rybarski, Adam, Polish mathematician, 341

Index of Names 397

Rydz-Smigły, Edward, Polish marshal,politician, painter, and poet, 241,279

Ryll-Nardzewski, Czesław, Polishmathematician, 115

Rylski, a son of Major Rylski (see Volume 1),269

Rzaca, Kazimierz (Kazio, Kazek), a student ofthe author in Stróze, 14, 31

Rzepinski, Czesław, Polish artist, 12Rzymowski, Wincenty, Polish writer and

politician, 26

S., Dr., a representative of the Polish RedCross, 26

S., Mr., a letter writer, 270S., Professor, an acquaintance of the author,

142Sabina, the Steinhauses’ servant in Wrocław,

47Sadowski, George, a US congressman, 72Sadowski, Wiesław, Polish economist and

statistician, 171Sakharov, Andreı Dmitrievich, Soviet nuclear

physicist, 203Salan, Raoul Albin Louis, French general, 233Sapieha, Prince Adam Stefan, Polish cardinal,

archbishop of Kraków, 2, 155Sartre, Jean-Paul, French existentialist

philosopher, 102Savage, Leonard Jimmie, American

mathematician and statistician, 74Savage, Mrs., wife of Leonard Jimmie, 74Sawicki, Jakub, Polish law professor, 330Sawicki, Jerzy, Polish lawyer, 116, 138, 231Sawyer, Wilbur Augustus, American

bacteriologist, 22Schaefer, a Göttingen professor, 35Schaff, Adam, Polish philosopher, 305Schärf, Henryk, Polish mathematician, 25Schauder, Juliusz Paweł, Polish-Jewish

mathematician, 41Schauders, the family of Juliusz, 41Schedlovsky, an American biologist, 286Schiffer, Menahem Max, German-Jewish-

American mathematician, 79Schilling, Captain, an official in the US

Department of the Navy, 73Schilling, Otto Franz Georg, German-

American algebraist, 74Schmidt, a Polish mining project director, 341Schoenborn, Józef (Dyk), a cousin of the

author, 33, 269

Schoenborn, Zofia, a daughter of Dyk, 33Schoenbornowa, Wanda, wife of Dyk, 33Schoenbornówna (Zurkowa), Józefa (Dziutka),

a daughter of Dyk, 33Schoenemannowa, Stanisława (Stasia)

(née Igielska), wife of WitoldSchoenemann (see Volume 1), 23,27, 32

Scholl, Hans and Sophie, members of ananti-Nazi movement in Germany,227, 228

Schopenhauer, Arthur, German philosopher, 8Schur, Issai, German-Jewish mathematician,

79Schuschnigg, Kurt Alois Josef Johann,

Chancellor of the Austrian Republicprior to the Anschluss, 58

Scott, Dana, American mathematician, 244Semichastnyı, Vladimir Yefimovich, Soviet

politician, 318Seymour, Beatrice Mary Kean, British novelist,

125Shakespeare, William, illustrious English poet

and playwright, 52, 241, 328Shamir, Yitzhak, Polish-born Israeli political

activist, 221Sheherazade, legendary Persian queen and

storyteller, 272Shepilov, Dmitriı Trofimovich, Soviet

politician, 220Shevchenko, Taras Hryhorovych, Ukrainian

poet, writer, and public figure, 177Shirer, William Lawrence, American journalist

and historian, 315Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrov, Soviet

novelist, 101Shvernik, Nikolaı Mikhailovich, Soviet

politician, 157Siegel, Carl Ludwig, German mathematician,

64Sienkiewicz, Henryk, Polish writer, 101Sieradzki, Włodzimierz, Lwów professor of

legal medicine, 39Sierpinska, Lesława, wife of Mieczysław, 286Sierpinska, wife of Wacław, 5, 104, 171Sierpinski, Mieczysław (Miecio), son of

Wacław, 5, 104, 286Sierpinski, Wacław, Polish mathematician, 1,

4, 12, 53, 56, 102–104, 137, 144,171, 188, 230, 276, 326

Sikorski, Władysław Eugeniusz, Polishmilitary and political leader, 54,213, 241, 254

Skibinski, Dr., 36

398 Index of Names

Skórnicka, Mrs., daughter of the Zagórskis,231

Slánský, Rudolf, Czechoslovak communistpolitician, 153

Sławinskis, a couple encountered in Zakopane,269

Slebodzinski, Władysław, Polishmathematician, 7, 9, 55, 97,127, 268, 341

Slebodzinskis, the family of Władysław,7, 38

Słomnicka, Wanda, sister of Mrs. Loria, 8Słonimski, Antoni, Polish writer and poet, 3,

203, 318, 324, 326, 328, 336Słonimski, Piotr, Polish biochemist, nephew of

Antoni, 3Slopek, Stefan, Polish microbiologist and

immunologist, 174, 181, 199Słowacki, Juliusz, illustrious Polish poet, 187,

242Słupecki, Jerzy, Polish mathematical logician,

Wrocław professor, 269Smalewska, Danuta, a friend of the author’s

daughter, 36, 38, 46Smalewska, mother of Danuta, 36, 44Smalewski, father of Danuta, 36Smith, H. Alexander, New Jersey senator,

69Smith, Howard Kingsbury, American

journalist, 109Smolenski, Dionizy, Polish chemist, 268Smulikowska, an acquaintance of the author,

35Sobieski, Jan III, king of the Polish-Lithuanian

Commonwealth, 118, 168Sojkówna, Mrs., a Kraków acquaintance of the

author, 35Sokal, S., 53Sokolov, Alexander (Alias Robert K. Baltch),

Soviet spy, 339Sokolovskiı, Vasiliı, Soviet marshal, 93Sokorski, Włodzimierz, Polish writer,

journalist and communist politician,48, 204

Sołowij, Adam, Lwów gynaecologist andobstetrician, 39

Sosnowski, Leonard, Polish physicist, 199Sozanski, Władek, a friend from Jasło days,

269Špacek, Antonín, Czechoslovak

mathematician, 176Spława-Neyman, Jerzy, Polish-American

mathematician, 62, 121, 127, 149Spława-Neymans, the family of Jerzy, 184

Spychalski, Marian, Polish general andpolitician, 133, 139, 156, 184, 191,206, 309, 310, 342

Stachurska, Genia, a servant of the Steinhausesin Lwów, 192

Stalin, Joseph, 31, 37, 45, 51, 52, 60, 92,93, 99, 100, 102, 104, 109, 112,114–119, 122, 123, 127, 129–133,143, 147, 153, 155–158, 163, 169,183, 189, 197, 200, 202, 203, 211,213, 214, 221, 232, 238, 262, 280,291, 293, 304, 306, 317, 345, 346,352, 364, 369

Stapledon, William Olaf, British philosopherand writer of science fiction, 101

Stark, Marceli, Polish mathematician, 1, 12,34, 58, 60, 62, 124, 145

Starks, the family of Marceli, 50Stasiakówna, an acquaintance met in

Kroscienko nad Dunajcem, 172Staszewski, Stefan, Polish communist

apparatchik, 213Staszic, Stanisław Wawrzyniec, Polish priest

and philosopher, 138Stawinski, Julian, Polish lawyer and translator,

59Stechert, G. E., American publisher, 13Stein, a Jasło lawyer, 5Steinbeck, John, American novelist, 319, 320Steinhaus, Bogusław, the author’s father, a

Jasło merchant, 350Steinhaus, Ignacy, brother of the author’s

father, 33, 350Steinhauses, the family of the author, 8Steinhausowa, Ewelina (née Lipschitz), the

author’s mother, 43, 48, 58, 85, 94,263

Steinhausowa, Stefania (Stefa) (néeSzmoszówna), the author’s wife, 11,14, 15, 22, 40, 46, 58, 62, 83, 94, 96,97, 105, 107, 126, 159, 160, 168,173, 202, 207, 208, 222, 231, 252,288, 302, 313, 350, 354

Steinhausówna (Chwistkowa), Olga, theauthor’s youngest sister, 241

Steinhausówna (Kottowa), Lidia (Lidka), theauthor’s daughter, 5, 10, 12, 26, 29,44, 45, 50, 52–54, 56, 62, 65, 101,105, 113, 135, 163, 167, 183, 188,209, 212, 231, 256, 257, 267

Steinhausówna (Müllerowa), Felicja, theauthor’s eldest sister, 262, 263

Steinhausówna (Zglinska), Irena, the author’smiddle sister, 35

Index of Names 399

Steins (assumed name Kaminski), the familyof a Jasło lawyer, 5

Stempowski, Stanisław, Polish-Ukrainianwriter and politician, 98

Stevenson, Adlai, American politician, 152Stiller, Miss, a Polish schoolteacher, 354Stoiłovic, a mathematician, 103Stone, Marshall Harvey, American

mathematician, 220Stozek, Emanuel, a son of Włodzimierz, 39Stozek, Eustachy, a son of Włodzimierz, 39Stozek, Włodzimierz, Polish mathematician,

39, 335Straszewski, Polish engineer, 49Strzelecki, Jan, Polish sociologist and political

activist, 324Strzelecki, Ryszard, Polish politician, 305, 318Studnicki, Franciszek, Polish law professor,

219Stys, Wincenty, professor of economics in

Wrocław, 56, 96, 196Sucharda, Anna, daughter of Edward, 6Sucharda, Edward, Polish chemist, 1, 6, 9, 21,

31Suchodolski, Bogdan, Polish philosopher and

science historian, 247Suchowiak, Lech, a student, 61Suharto, Haji Mohammad, second Indonesian

president, 357Sukarno, first Indonesian president, 357Suppé, Franz von, Austrian composer of

operettas, 331Suslov, Mikhail Andreevich, Soviet politician,

325, 337Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich, Russian

generalissimo, 121, 125Swiatkowski, Henryk, Polish Minister of

Justice, 203Swiatło, Józef (born Izaak Fleischfarb), official

in the Polish Ministry of PublicSecurity, 178, 187, 192, 201, 314

Swida, Witold, Wrocław law professor, 283Swiderska, Halina, Polish writer, 262Swierczkowski, Stanisław, Polish

mathematician, 282Swing, a US consulate official in Warsaw, 64Synge, John Lighton, Irish mathematician and

physicist, 70Sz., Mr., an acquaintance of the author, 361Szafer, Tadeusz P., Polish architect and urban

planner, 273Szafraniec, Marian, an assistant of Laska, 47Szarskis, acquaintances of the author, 1

Szczeklik, Edward, Polish internist inWrocław, 95, 101

Szczepankiewicz, Stanisław, Polish geologist,62

Szczepanski, Jan Józef, Polish writer, 256Szczotka, Franciszek, Polish mathematician,

258Szczypcina, wife of Szczypta, 135Szczypta, Polish postal worker and German

informant, 135Szego, Gábor, Hungarian-American

mathematician, 78Szeligowski, Stanisław Sabin, Polish

astronomer, 277Szembek, Count Jan, Polish politician and

diplomat, son of Zygmunt, 129Szembek, Count Zygmunt, Polish aristocrat,

129Szemplinska, Elzbieta, Polish writer and poet,

97Szmielew, Wanda, Polish mathematician, 128,

161, 174, 180, 241Szmosz, Adolf (Dolek), a brother-in-law of the

author, 10, 29, 218, 263Szmosz, the author’s father-in-law, 310Szmoszowa, Paulina, the author’s mother-in-

law, 245, 280Szmoszówna (Dittersdorfowa), Helena (Hela),

the author’s sister-in-law, 82Szparkowski, Zygmunt, Polish engineer,

Wrocław professor, 268Szpilrajn-Marczewski, Edward, Polish-Jewish

mathematician, 7, 9, 97, 138, 164,170, 208, 217, 268, 276, 277, 341

Szydłowski, a Jasło Gymnasium teacher, 187Szymaniec, Stanisław, Polish biologist, 340Szyr, Eugeniusz, Polish major and communist

politician, 249, 341

T., Mr., an acquaintance of the author, 172T., uninvited attendee at a conference in Spała,

175Taft, William Howard, American politician, 72Tapkowski, Dr. Tadeusz, a Lwów lawyer, 39Tarnowski, Count Stanisław, Polish critic,

historian, 187Tarski, Alfred, Polish-American logician and

mathematician, 62, 128, 244Taubenschlag, Rafał, Polish historian of law,

231Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard Freiherr von,

German publisher, 125

400 Index of Names

Taylor, Ellis, physicist at the US Bureau ofStandards, wife of Moddie Daniel,81

Taylor, Moddie Daniel, African-Americanchemist, 81

Teller, Edward, Hungarian-American physicist,239

Teppowa, an acquaintance of the author, 35Terentianus Maurus, Roman grammarian, 227Thales of Miletus, pre-Socratic Greek

philosopher, 247Thant, U, Burmese Secretary-General of the

UN, 291Thiers, Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe, French

politician and historian, 263Tiche Falencki, Karin, Polish actress, 80Tisserant, Eugène, French cardinal, 70Tito, Josip Broz, Yugoslav revolutionary and

politician, 46, 99, 100, 103, 112,153, 189, 211, 330, 364

Togliatti, Palmiro, leader of the ItalianCommunist Party, 331

Tokarski, Julian, Polish geologist, 174Tokarski, Julian, Polish lawyer and politician,

219, 249Tokarzowa (née Cieluchówna), a daughter of

Cieluch Senior (see Volume 1), 354Trotskiı, Leon Davidovich, Russian-Jewish

Bolshevik revolutionary, 52, 155,262

Truks, a mathematician, 176Truman, Harry S., American politician, 31, 70,

93, 109, 115, 116, 136, 150, 152,154, 180, 286

Trybuła, Stanisław, Polish mathematician andstatistician, Wrocław professor, 225,313

Trzebiatowski, Włodzimierz, Polish chemist,9, 35, 113

Tsankov, Aleksander Tsolov, Bulgarian fascistpolitician, 100

Tuchołkowa, an acquaintance of the author, 43Tułasiewicz, Lilian (née Seymour), American

novelist, 125Turán, Pál, Hungarian mathematician, 162Turán, Vera (née Sós), wife of Pál, 234Turáns, the family of Pál, 234Turnau, Miss, Polish mathematician, 1Turowicz, Jerzy, Polish Catholic journalist, 326Turówna, a Warsaw acquaintance of the author,

208Turski, Stanisław, Polish mathematician and

politician, 49, 148, 375

Tuszkiewicz, Alfred Roman, professor ofinternal medicine in Wrocław, 6

Tuwim, Julian, Polish poet, 59, 161, 165, 166Tuwim, Stefania, wife of Julian, 184Twardowski, Kazimierz, Polish philosopher,

188, 278Tyrmand, Leopold, Polish novelist, 227

Uhlenbeck, George Eugene, Dutch-Americanphysicist, 36, 286

Ujejski, Kornel, Polish poet and patrioticwriter, 111

Ulam, Françoise, wife of Stanisław, 75, 76Ulam, Stanisław Marcin, Polish-American

mathematician, 30, 48, 57, 59, 75,76, 220, 235, 239, 265, 286

Ulbricht, Walter, German communistpolitician, 322, 332

Urbanik, Kazimierz, Polish mathematician,Wrocław professor, 225, 240, 241,341

Vafiadis, Markos, Greek communist general,100

Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneurde, French marshal and militaryengineer, 82

Vaudrin, Philip, an editor with OxfordUniversity Press, 71, 80

Vavilov, Sergeı Ivanovich, Soviet physicist, 55Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y,

Spanish painter, 279Vetulani, Adam Joachim, Polish law professor,

219, 310Vetulani, Kazimierz, Lwów physicist, 39Vincenz, Stanisław, Polish novelist and

essayist, 105, 220, 241, 333Vinogradov, Ivan Matveevich, Soviet number

theorist, 55Vinson, Frederick Moore, head of the US

Supreme Court, 69Voroshilov, Kliment Yefremovich, Soviet

military and political leader, 157,214

Vyshinskiı, Andreı Yanuarevich, Sovietrepresentative to the UN, 115, 175

W., Hedi (née Frydman), a cousin of the author,82

W., K., an acquaintance of the author, 129

Index of Names 401

Wacinski, Tadeusz, neighbor and friend ofDawidek Rubinowicz, 256

Wahrhaften, a publisher, 23Wajda, Andrzej, Polish film director, 223Wald, Abraham, Romanian-American

statistician, 71Wałesa, Lech, Polish trade union organizer and

politician, 143Walham, an American mathematician, 71Walker, Robert J., American mathematician,

77Wallace, Henry A., American politician, 93, 97Wallis, Wilson Allen, American statistician

and economist, 74Wankowicz, Melchior, Polish writer, 336, 338,

339, 341, 345Warchałowski, T., lawyer, 63Ward, Olive, the English Ward’s wife, 13Wards, an English couple, 13, 45Warmus, Mieczysław, Polish mathematician,

30, 32, 144Warren, Earl, American chief justice, 333, 335,

337Warzecha, a former mayor of Grybów, 47Wazyk, Adam, Polish writer and poet, 200,

223, 224, 326Weaver, Warren, American mathematician and

science advocate, 216Wegrzecki, Polish announcer for Voice of

America, 134Wegrzynski, Bogusław, a son of Jan

Wegrzynski (see Volume 1), 359Weierstrass, Karl, German mathematician, 249Weigel, Józef, son of Kasper, 39Weigel, Kasper, professor at the Lwów

Polytechnic, 39Weishopf, director of the Department of

Atomic Energy in Geneva, 330Weishopfs, the family of Mr. Weishopf, 330Weiss, Ruth, a friend of Professor Schaefer, 35Weisses, the family of Ignacy Weiss (see

Volume 1), 5Weissówna, Helena (Hela), a cousin of the

author, 94Welfeld, Chaim-Joachim, father of Józef, 126Welfeld, Isaac, uncle of Józef, 126Welfeld, Józef, Polish chemist, 126Werfel, Roman, Polish communist apparatchik,

280Wertheim, a Polish civil servant, 206Weryha, Aleksander, Polish statistician, 138Westphalen, Jenny von, wife of Karl Marx,

216Weyssenhoff, Jan, Polish physicist, 11

Whitehead, John Henry Constantine, Britishtopologist, 103

Wicha, Władysław, Polish politician, 178Widy-Wirski, Teodor Feliks, Polish doctor and

communist politician, 333Wiener, Norbert, American mathematician, 36,

149, 234, 242, 247Wiercinski, Andrzej, Polish anthropologist,

207Wierzbicki, Witold, Polish mathematician,

144, 148Wiesenthal, Simon, Austrian Nazi hunter, 373Wilhelm II, last German Kaiser, 194Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt, President Wilson’s

widow, 69Wilson, Harold, British politician, 372Wilson, Woodrow, American politician, 69Winiewicz, Józef, Polish ambassador to the

US, 72Winiewiczowa, wife of Józef, 72Winiewiczs, the family of Józef, 72Wirszup, Izaak, Polish-American

mathematician and mathematicaleducationalist, 268

Wisłocki, Władysław T., a Lwów librarian, 39Wisniewski, a Polish expert in quality control,

58, 60, 137Wisniewski, teacher at the Gymnasium, poet,

187Wisniewskis, the Warsaw family of the expert

Wisniewski, 63Witaszewski, Kazimierz, Polish major-general

and Stalinist politician, 210, 260,277, 281, 305, 312, 318

Witek, an engineer, 135, 275Witkiewicz, Roman, professor at the Lwów

Polytechnic, 39Witkowa, wife of Witek, 275Witold, a cousin of the author, 311Witos, Wincenty, Polish politician, 254Wittlin, Elisabeth, daughter of Józef, 79Wittlin, Józef, Polish novelist and poet, 79, 80,

286Wittlinowa, wife of Józef, 79, 286Wittlinówna (Winnicka), Wiktoria (Wikta),

stepsister of Józef, 125, 150, 330Wittlins, the family of Józef, 80, 81Włosinski, a Polish engineer and plant

manager, 270Wojciechowski, Stanisław, Polish diplomat and

politician, 254Wojciechowski, Tadeusz, Polish painter and

architect, 14Wójcik, Stanisław, Polish politician, 37

402 Index of Names

Wold, Herman Ole Andreas, Hungarian-bornSwedish econometrician, 78, 161,224

Wolibner, Witold, Polish mathematician, 59Wolska, Barbara, a friend of the Blumenfelds,

5Wolski, Władysław, Polish politician, 121, 142Wright, Frank Lloyd, American architect, 287Wronski, Thaddeus, Polish-American

band-leader, 331Wycech, Czesław, Polish politician and

historian, 22Wyka, Kazimierz, Polish historian and literary

critic, 326, 329Wysłouch, Seweryn, Polish law historian in

Wrocław, 98Wyszomirski, Jerzy, Polish stage director, 338Wyszynski, Stefan, Polish cardinal, 164, 294,

324, 358

X, Colonel, an official with the Pentagon, 73X, Mrs., a doctor’s widow, 234

Yuch Ming-yi, Chinese mathematician, 337

Z., an unnamed versifier, 114Z., Mr. and Mrs., acquaintances of the author,

141Z., Mrs. (née Jasinska), a friend of Wikta

Wittlinówna, 125Z., Mrs., an Lwów acquaintance of the author,

252Zabierowski, a representative of the wartime

Polish underground teachingorganization, 135

Zaborski, a Polish merchant and bureaucrat,11, 18

Zagórski, Jerzy, Polish writer and poet, 266,326

Zagórskis, the family of Jerzy, 11, 82, 231Zambrowski, Roman, Polish-Jewish

communist politician, 266Zaremba, Jan, a teacher and owner of a

property in Stróze Nizne, 31, 62Zaremba, Karol, a brother of Jan, 28Zaremba, Stanisław Krystyn, Polish

mountaineer and mathematician,son of Stanisław Zaremba Sr., 37,235, 236

Zariski, Oscar, Russian-Jewish-Americanalgebraic geometer, 78

Zaritskaya, Irina, Ukrainian pianist, 266Zarnecki, Tadeusz, director of a Polish

government agency, 85Zarzycki (Zaricki), Miron, Ukrainian

mathematician, 45Zawadowski, Witold Eugeniusz, Polish

radiology pioneer, 163Zawadzki, Aleksander, Polish communist

politician, 211, 325Zawirski, Zygmunt, Polish philosopher and

logician, 1Zelazny, Józef, a Jasło physician, 9Zel0dovich, Yakov Borisovich, Soviet

physicist, 203Zglinska (Manczakowa), Barbara (Basia),

daughter of the author’s sister Irena,26, 201, 306

Zglinski, Leonard, a lawyer, a brother-in-lawof the author, husband of Irena, 107

Zgorzelska, Aleksandra, Polish editor, 47, 69,70, 110, 193, 203, 223

Zhdanov, Andreı Aleksandrovich, Sovietpolitician, 51, 52, 102, 155

Zhou Enlai, Chinese communist politician,366

Zhukov, Georgiı Konstantinovich, Sovietmarshal and politician, 106, 123,137, 185, 214, 223

Zieba, Andrzej, Polish mathematician, 94, 264Zielinski, a Polish engineer, 104Zielinski, Bronisław, Polish translator, 256Zielinski, Zygmunt, Polish military

commander, 269Zierhoffer, August, Polish geographer and

geologist, 142Złotowski, Ignacy, Polish chemist,

70, 165Zółkiewski, Stefan, Polish literary historian

and politician, 40, 174, 204, 225,231

Zorin, Valerian Aleksandrovich, Sovietdiplomat and politician, 220, 221

Zoshchenko, Mikhail Mikhailovich, Sovietwriter of satirical short stories, 51,52

Zubik, Edward, lecturer at Wrocław University,283

Zubrzycki, Stefan, Polish mathematician, 127Zuławski, Jerzy, teacher at the Gymnasium,

writer, 187Zuławski, Juliusz, Polish writer, 223

Index of Names 403

Zuloaga y Zabaleta, Ignacio, Basque painter,75

Zurek, husband of Dziutka Schoenbornówna,33

Zychiewicz, Antoni M., son of EmilZychiewicz (see Volume 1), 59

Zygmund, Antoni, Polish-Americanmathematician, 9, 30, 62, 73, 74, 76,93, 217, 220, 265, 268, 290, 291

Zylinski, Eustachy, Polish mathematicallogician, 26, 41, 176

Zymierski, see Rola-Zymierski