Wszystko zależy od przypadku Józefa Rozewicza: na tropie jego zesłań i podróży

Abstract

In his article, Michał Siedlecki analyses the motifs of deportation and travel of Józef Rozewicz in the context of his biography entitled Wszystko zależy od przypadku [Everything depends on Chance]. The author presents the profile of Rozewicz (born in 1930 in Wieliczka), a habilitated associate professor of technical sciences at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, and later, among others, a professor at the Oxford University. On the one hand, he is a character who has been hard struck by fate (by the outbreak of the Second World War, escape from the Nazis, being exiled with his family to the Mari Autonomous Republic in northern Russia, emigration from Poland to Israel in the wake of the events of March ‘68), and on the other, an extremely intriguing figure in terms of his own life experiences and academic and professional career. While on emigration in England, he continued to work as chief specialist in companies that specialised in the construction and design of oil refineries and power plants. He published over 45 articles in academic and technical journals. He is an important figure in the history of Polish, Israeli, and British science and history.