Advancing Poland in Exile: World War II Intellectuals in North America
Journal: Polonia Inter Gentes
Year: 2023

The outbreak of World War II left thousands of Polish citizens unable to safely return to their homeland, among them scholars who were quick to form a “Polish University in Exile” in Paris as a means of ensuring wartime continuity in their respective fields, followed by an Association of Polish University Professors and Lecturers in London after the fall of France. The cadre of intellectuals and artists who were in the United States in 1939 were joined during and in the immediate aftermath of th