Mieczysław Jastrun

Mieczysław Jastrun studied at University of Warsaw. The recorded working language is Polish and Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is poetry, essay and translating activity. Distinctions recorded are Work Flag Order, 1st class, Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta and City of Łódź Award.

Jastrun was born in Korolivka, Borshchiv Raion (in the former Eastern Galicia) into a Jewish family, the son of Józef Agatstein[2] and Maria Agatstein née Nisensohn. He spent his childhood in Jodłowa, and went to public school in Ryglice, where his father had opened a surgery. The family moved several times to places where Joseph worked. Through 1915−1919 Mieczysław stayed in Kraków, where he went to gymnasium. Due to the onset of Polish–Soviet War he interrupted his studies and volunteered to the Polish Army. However, he did not participate in engagements as he contracted typhus. On 9 March 1920 together with his older brother, Jerzy Stanisław (later Jerzy Gierowski) he was baptised in the parish church in Jodłowa. He did not return to Kraków immediately and instead completed the last two high school forms in First General Liceum in Tarnów. During that time he lived in Pleśna, with his former governess (1921−1923). Later during the 1920s, Jastrun studied Polish, German and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków; he received a doctorate in 1929 upon dissertation Stosunek Wyspiańskiego do Słowackiego. He was also close to the Skamander group and wrote several works of poetry strongly influenced by symbolism. At the onset of World War II, Jastrun took refuge in Lviv, then occupied by the Soviet Union, where he worked as a teacher. After Nazi Germany occupied Lviv in 1941, he relocated to Warsaw, took the name Jan Klonowicz and worked as an underground teacher. Jastrun's Jewish identity remained undiscovered during the war, and he survived the Holocaust. After the end of the war, Jastrun lived briefly in Lublin and Łódź before moving back to Warsaw in 1949. He joined the communist Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), He left PZPR in 1957. and in the post-war era wrote several books dealing with the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust in the style of socialist realism. Jastrun also wrote biographies of Jan Kochanowski, Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki, translated works by poets such as Lorca, Pushkin, Hölderlin and Rilke into Polish, and taught modern poetry at the University of Warsaw. In 1964 he was one of the signatories of the so-called Letter of 34 to Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz regarding freedom of culture. He was married to Mieczysława Buczkówna; their son was Tomasz Jastrun. Jastrun died in Warsaw in 1983, and is buried at Powązki Cemetery.

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• Novel about Juliusz Słowacki. • Autobiographical novel. • Memoir. • Short stories. Posthumously. * • Posthumously.

• Gold Cross of Merit (8 May 1946)[3] • Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st class (22nd July 1949)[4] • Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (16 July 1954)[5] • Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (19 January 1955)[6]

Mieczysław Jastrun was recorded at birth as Mojsze Agatsztajn. He also worked under the name Jan Klonowicz. The authorities additionally record the heading Mojsze Agatstein. His recorded languages were Polish and Ukrainian. He married Mieczysława Buczkówna. One child is recorded: Tomasz Jastrun.

Mieczysław Jastrun worked in poetry, essay and translating activity. He belonged to National Writers' Union of Ukraine.

Mieczysław Jastrun is recorded as writer, poet, translator, literary scholar and essayist.

• Mieczyslaw Jastrun • Here Too as in Jerusalem