12 Facts About Ignacy Matuszewski

Ignacy Matuszewski was born on 10 September 1891, in Warsaw, a son of Ignacy Matuszewski Sr.

Ignacy Matuszewski studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University, architecture in Milan, law in Tartu, and agriculture in Warsaw.

Ignacy Matuszewski was the leading editor of Polityka Narodow, a monthly that analyzed geopolitics, foreign policies of foreign powers, international situation and the place of Poland in the world.

In March 1938, Ignacy Matuszewski accurately predicted the outbreak of World War II and its fatal consequences for Poland.

Ignacy Matuszewski was a pessimist, whom Jozef Beck did not want to listen to.

Ignacy Matuszewski had worried that the war would be an unprecedented catastrophe for Poland.

Ignacy Matuszewski thought that Poland could not afford a war with Germany, as the Germans had an enormous military advantage.

Ignacy Matuszewski worked to persuade Polish public opinion in the US to oppose the policy of concessions to Joseph Stalin.

Ignacy Matuszewski once gave her that which he valued the most: the Cross of Virtuti Militari once awarded to his great-grandfather, as well as a similar order that was his own.

Ignacy Matuszewski was captured by the Germans, whom she did not fear, while performing her duties as a paramedic in the Baszta Insurgent Company to the very end.

Ignacy Matuszewski died in New York City on 3 August 1946.

Ignacy Matuszewski was the recipient of The Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari and of The Estonian Cross of Freedom of the Third Degree.