KARTA Center wins Jerzy Giedroyc prize
This year's Jerzy Giedroyc prize, awarded every year by Rzeczpospolita in
recognition of services to the national good, was given to Zbigniew Gluza
and his KARTA Center for its work in the field of the Polish raison d'etat.
The work of Gluza and his colleagues was celebrated yesterday at the
Stanislawowski Theatre in Warsaw's Lazienki Park in the company of
Aleksander Kwasniewski. The KARTA Center received the award for its work in
preserving and safeguarding national history by documenting it over the last
two decades. Kwasniewski said that, "History as seen by KARTA and its
founder Zbigniew Gluza tells us about collective reality through the prism
of individual experience and twists of fate. Without this the image of our
times and our self-knowledge would be impoverished." (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1)
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