On Monday, October 9, Bolesławiec once again hosted Tomasz Kuba Kozłowski from the capital’s History Meeting House, a promoter of the history and culture of the Eastern Borderlands, author of the “Stories from the Eastern Borderlands” series and coordinator of the Warsaw Eastern Borderlands Initiative.
This time, T.K. Kozłowski took everyone gathered in the hall of the “Orzeł” Cultural Integration Centre on a journey through Polish health resorts in the Eastern Borderlands, such as Niemirów, Szkło, Lubień and Morszyn.
A large part of the presentation was devoted to the Truskavets resort, now located in Ukraine. This was no coincidence. During the interwar period, Truskavets was the second most frequented Polish health resort, after Krynica. “In the Second Polish Republic, every prominent man and every prominent lady had to visit Truskavets at least once,” T.K. Kozłowski stressed. “Luminaries of culture and art, creators, artists and aristocrats used to come here. And, naturally, politicians: presidents, prime ministers, ministers, senators and deputies.
The well-known promoter of the history and culture of the Eastern Borderlands also spoke about the brilliant businessman who embodied the rags-to-riches myth, Rajmund Jarosz, the man who built the power of the aforementioned resort. T.K. Kozłowski added that Polish schools of economics should bear Jarosz’s name.
The distinguished expert on the history of the Eastern Borderlands did not focus exclusively on describing the “Truskavets paradise”. He also mentioned that on August 29, 1931, two Ukrainian nationalists murdered in this town one of the most prominent politicians of the ruling camp, a Piłsudski supporter’s expert on Ukrainian affairs and a member of the Sejm, Tadeusz Hołówko.
Several dozen people attended the meeting, held on the initiative of Barbara Smoleńska, head of the Bolesławiec Society of Friends of Lviv and the South-Eastern Borderlands.