RE: [Cz-L] Victory in Poland over the papers of N.H.Kon

Ina...

Congratulation on your amazing endurance and on the deserved success. I'm forwarding your mail by Cc to

• Marla Raucher Osborn
• Ruth Ellen Gruber

both exceptionally gifted researchers, authors, outstanding personalities representing Jewishness & Yddishkeit in Galicia and Bukovina and much, much more..., i. e. in a nutshell, THE IDEAL PROMOTERS!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

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> Subject: [Cz-L] Victory in Poland over the papers of N.H.Kon
> From: ina.lancman_at_gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:20:51 -0500
> To: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
>
> Dear Czernowitzers,
>
> As you may recall from the Associated Press article I sent to the group a while ago (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110921/eu-poland-yiddish-writer/ ), our quest in Poland for the papers of our father, the Yiddish poet Naftali Hertz Kon, seemed all but hopeless in the summer of 2011. But two years since we have began our quest, and three courts later, the battle is over: we won.
>
> The papers have been "arrested" for over 50 years. My sister Vita and I have a March 5th "date" with the Warsaw branch of the Polish State Archive to collect the papers.
>
> Among the many ridiculous reasons the Archive cited for its refusal to release the papers one was rather surprising: our request had no precedent. No one has ever laid claims to its collections of similar provenance, i.e. papers confiscated from their creators/owners by the security organs of the communist regime. Though hard to believe, there is, at this point, no public information available to verify the veracity of that assertion.
>
> We were very lucky. We had a brilliant young Polish lawyer, Tomasz Koncewicz, a law professor and a highly visible crusader for bringing Polish judicial system (not quite yet post-communist) into line with democratic aspirations of Poland.
>
> Coverage in the Polish press was also of help. In fact, Gazeta Wyborcza, the Polish equivalent of The NY Times, will be running a second piece on our case in its January 31st issue.
>
> I think that the story should be also made known outside of Poland, and that is something I would now like to turn my efforts to. The practice of confiscating works of artistic and intellectual endeavor was widespread in all communist bloc countries. There must be many people out there who are heirs to the locked-up creative or intellectual works, and our case might encourage them to pursue their rescue. And who knows what gems might be consequently resurrected from the dusty vaults of the communist archives?
>
> Given the international makeup of this group, I would welcome any suggestions you may have on spreading the word.
>
> With many thanks,
> Ina Lancman
>
> P.S. Readers of Polish: let me know if you are interested in Gazeta Wyborcza article and I'll email you a copy as soon as it comes out.
>

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