In fresh years Zamoyski has someway been forgotten, even in Zamość. During the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of regaining Independence, you have not heard of the large merits of Maurycy Zamoyski.
And without him – which is not hard to prove – the National Committee of Poland (originally, established in November 1914 in Warsaw, the Polish National Committee inactive with Sigismund Balicki – then transferred to Piotrogrod, so that at the end of 1915 its 2 members, Dmowski and Zamoyski, would go to the West to prosecute Poland's return to the map more effectively and fight for the land of Prussian occupation) would not "get" to Versailles.
The costs of this task would be besides serious (and possibly no 1 else would have thought of going to France and England ?), not to mention the absence among the another members of the social committee, how crucial in specified a delicate Polish case erstwhile there was only a people torn apart by the invaders – a conexion among the personalities at the heights of power in France with Ferdinand Fochem at the head and among the aristocracy in the West. The 15th Ordinate, who speaks perfectly French, besides contributed to the preparation of many correspondences, accruals, notes, statements, writings, etc. addressed to the French authorities and the representations of another states of the entent on Polish affairs and its internationalisation.
How advanced were the costs of maintaining the Committee and various extended diplomatic, media, frequently informal, social activities (after the Blue Army was established, which was appointed by Zamoyski as commander) General Joseph Haller), besides the military should bear witness to the fact that even He himself experienced serious financial difficulties after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. The reason for these was the deficiency of access to the funds deposited in the Russian banks as a consequence of the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution to specified an degree that he decided to dispose of the very valuable historical valuables of his household and his wife Maria of Sapieh – in order to keep the Committee. It ended with their commitment to the protests of another Committee members. Roman Dmowski surviving with him – his deputy and treasurer KNP – became a associate of his family.
In the autumn of 2018, going through the Grand marketplace in Zamość, where the most prominent figures of the Revival Poland were reminded, I was ashamed to announce the absence of the 15th Ordinate among them... And no 1 has asked for him there... Similarly, in the summertime of 2021, erstwhile His 150th anniversary approached, no psychic or association was curious in His character, let alone the Sejm and political parties...
W Zamość, on the another hand, only the Catholic radio agreed to do the broadcast on July 30 and asked for the material, and the cathedral office gladly agreed to put the ribbon in the Zamoyski chapel: “Mauryce Zamoyski – Co-founder of Revival Poland in 150. Anniversary Birthday – NationalsIt’s okay. ” In the context of the renovation of the building of the Zamojski Academy, the only commemorative plaque in Poland was taken off its front wall – founded by the Management Board of the Zamojski territory of the SND in 1992, so that after the completion of the renovation (such are the plans) “to hide” it somewhere in the designed museum of this university. The boy of Mauryce, Jan – XVI Ordinate – Senator and president of the SND was no longer mentioned.
However, in the summertime of 2021, something moved erstwhile Adam Gąsianowski, well-deserved local photographer, leading “Old Photography Gallery” he organized a popularly visited exhibition of household photographs of the last ordinate, coming mainly from the albums of his relatives, due to the fact that the collections of photographs together with the precious library of the Zamość Order Library at the Blue Palace at the Senatorial Palace were mostly destroyed in September 1939 by German bombs, and in the office of the home – Clementów in Zamość by Red Army and not only... As the Album Authors write, the Soviets have been exporting palace objects for respective days. Last year, however, bronze tiles were built on the pavement of Grodzka Street to praise Jan I Róża, after honouring respective little well-deserved Polish and celebrated cities.
The fruit of this exhibition is the album of surviving household photographs of Zamoyski. Last year Adam Gąsianowski and Anna Rudy in connection with 110. The anniversary of the birth of Jan Zamoyski and the 30th anniversary of the entry of the Old Town of Zamość on the UNESCO planet Cultural Heritage list, on which the last ordinate had much merit, was published in a very aesthetic, beautiful graphic robe – an album devoted to Rose and Jan Zamoyski.
However, this publication is more than just a collection of photographs, due to the fact that it reminds us of the past of “Piastowiczów” – a household that faithfully served Poland and never betrayed it. Even in terrible Stalinist times. In addition to brief information about the Zamojsk Order and the presentation together with their portraits, the next sixteen ordinates, starting with Chancellor and Hetman of the large Crown Jan Zamoyski as its founder, the album contains earlier presented on the exhibition household photographs and photos taken from the found glass photographs of the interiors of the palace in Klemensów, the oldest of which dates from 1897. The ruined 18th-century building, along with the neglected park-forest team, was sold rather late to Martin and his sisters, heirs of the 16th Ordinate.
Special attention should be paid to the chapter devoted to the heroic and very dangerous fight of Zamoyski for the rescue of Polish children displaced from families from close pacified villages, and dying in abject simple hygiene rules, tragic conditions in a transitional camp in Zwierzyniec in the summertime of 1943. In addition to the photographs from this period, the authors included a fragment of Jan Zamoyski's memories of pulling out respective 100 children to German torturers (which was bordering on a miracle!), and then saving their lives and health, in which the wife sacrificed Yellow rose – Angel of Goodness – as she was called... and the inhabitants of the Animal and the surrounding area. How many people, including Jews, saved on the territory of the Order – most likely no 1 will count, but there were many. After the war, they did not return the favor, but on the contrary...
Jan Zamoyski in Italy (1938)
One information contained in the publication on the self-sacrifice of Maurice needs to be corrected. Well, before, on 28 June 1919, he marked his ancestral seal of the coat of arms of the “Jelita” on the paper of the Versailles Treaty to sign on it Ignacy Jan Paderewski (also the coat of arms of the "Jelit") alongside the signature and seal of Roman Dmowski, the tedious and long way to the final required for the maintenance and operation of the Committee in Paris based in his rented flat on Avenue Kleber 11 bis immense financial resources.
The money was arranged from its accounts in the Kiev bank thanks to the support of the French Ministry of Finance and abroad Affairs, and later there were debt agreements concluded by KNP with the French government, guaranteed by Zamoyski. It happened, of course, that He was going to the casino, but it was only ad hoc activities erstwhile the money temporarily ran out. The 15th Ordinator's self-sacrifice most likely included all possible spheres of life of Poles (such as the support of the Polish School Matrix, the Society of Popular Teachers, the Gymnastic Society "Sokół", helping the Church recover the parish after 1905 a powerful contribution to the construction of the Society of Fine Arts Zachęta, the School of Fine Arts, the National Philharmonic with the acquisition of instruments, the monument of Adam Mickiewicz and Frederick Chopin in Warsaw), and yet he is inactive absent in public consciousness. For the reasons mentioned above, his photographs are barely on the Album.
It is very good that this album has been released and that the memory of the self-sacrifice of the top representatives of the home of Grand Chancellor the Crown, due to the fact that besides Mauryce, John and Rosa Zamoyski belong to us monuments...
Halina Ostovich
Adam Gąsianowski, Anna Rudy, “Black of old photographs from Roża and Jan Zamoyski albums”, Name 2022
Orders: Bookstore Trio from Mite (Zamość)
