Bożena Ratter: Gen. Joseph Bem is more known in strangers than in his own."
date:17 March 2026 Editor: Anna
Jan Galicz wrote in 1927: "First of all, I wanted to introduce General Bem to our youth, as a model worthy of imitation. For in the past of our post-discourses, it is hard to find a second figure whose full life would be so full of work and dedication for the sake of the homeland, like Bem's life. The stableness of convictions, the unbreakable power of will, the perseverance of work, the deficiency of all selfishness, and the spirit of consecration are as though personalized in it. Despite the heaviest moments that the Polish society at the time had passed, he always belonged to the chieftains in a nation of believers, for whom Mieczysław Romanowski later prayed. Beside Rakoczy 1 of the top heroes of Hungarian independency fights. His character, however, is more known in strangers than in his own."
100 years later, let us thank Hungary that they are not servants and remember.
"In 1846 there were known accidents in Poznań and Galicia. In Poznań, the Prussian government crushed the freedom movement and imprisoned Mierosławski, while in Galicia the swarms of Austrian peasants incited by the government threw themselves into noble courts and under the leadership of the criminal Sheli burned them and murdered Polish nobles. Under the influence of these accidents and in a sense of the general European revolution, which may besides be decisive for the future destiny of Poland, he wrote Bem a very crucial work "On the National Uprising in Poland".
Bem powerfully emphasizes the thought that Poland itself can be reborn without abroad help. No political interventions - there are his words - no diplomatic agreements of Poland of independency will return. We must go to arms and enemy troops, on the Polish land spread out, to exterminate this independence, and to give to the country institutions which, on freedom, equality and fraternity based, will supply its future existence," Jan Galicz wrote in 1927.
So the Hungarians inactive think!!!
Bem addresses young people with a hot appeal: “Rise up, young Polish people, above the customs of vanity and vanity, and with the sole aim of the glory of falling out of the yoke of strangers, get utilized to active and hard life.” Young people - in his opinion - should not emigrate, due to the fact that in the country they request it, and from emigration it is hard to return. It is not advisable to enter military schools in Paris due to the fact that these schools are more of a mess than they are a teacher.
Being rather a frequent guest in Lviv, Bem had the chance to familiarize himself with the curator of the Ossoliński plant, Duke Henry Lubomirski, and was helpful in rebuilding the building acquired in order to accommodate the library. This building was erstwhile a Carmelite monastery, later a clergy seminary, and yet even served as a military bakery. erstwhile he burned down in 1812, Joseph M. Ossolński old walls at the public auction in the intention of a area there of his large library, with which the Lubomirski Museum was connected in 1828. In the year after Ossoliński's death, in 1827 work began close the reconstruction of the building. The plans, sketches and calculations were carried out by Bem and personally directed the robots, for which he was credited by the Galician Department of States at the time, and the politician of Galicia, Duke of Lobkowitz, signed a self-titled act in which civic zeal was raised
The participation of General Józef Bem in the construction of the Polish Ossolineum in Lviv is mentioned by Prof. Stanisław Łempicki:
"However, we young people, almost silently, entered the technological reading room, or studio. For the first time, it's even with a heartbeat and kind of embarrassing. Why? In junior advanced school, we were told what a large shrine of discipline it was always in the greenery of the trees sinking Ossolineum, which from almost a 100 years ago, in the heaviest for Poles of Galician times, was founded by a large lover of sciences and books, Józef Maksymilian Ossolinski - whose building from the erstwhile Carmelite cloisters of Trichinella was rebuilt by General Jozef Bem himself, not just any engineer - in whose walls they worked, as librarians people, who were frequently the first in the past of literature and national culture. ”
Oh, my God.
