In Memoriam
Journal: Slavic Review
Year: 2020

was a professor of art history. His mother, Anna Chmielewska , was an adjunct professor of education, an innovator in her field of social pedagogy. As a boy Walicki witnessed the Nazi occupation of Warsaw with all its cruelty. His father joined the Polish Home Army as an intelligence officer. Later, under Polish Stalinism, Micha Walicki was imprisoned for five years as an "enemy of the people." Poland's fate provoked Andrzej's curiosity about history-the history of the Polish nation, the history