Warmia you don't know. Conversation with EDWARD CYFUS

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– Does this act mean anything to you?

– No benefit, only satisfaction that I introduced into the collective awareness the existence of Warmia.

You have the blood of Masuria and Warmia, but in your heart there's a pulse of Warmia.

– My Father – Mazur – had to be and was a soldier of the Wehrmacht, awarded with the Silver Cross. For my warmia, I received the Silver Cross of Merit from president Bronisław Komorowski.

– These 2 Crosses symbolize the complicated past of these lands and human fates, and, colloquially, combine Mazury, Poland, Warmia – for her you “made” the way of bishops, the elementary, language workshops, competitions, books, broadcasts, “gods” of Warmia.

– And the most crucial of my “product” – a wide, active and lasting promotion of my beloved Warmia.

– You have a cottage in Purda with material monuments of the region. I watched these treasures, and I besides know that this 140-year-old facility in Giławy, about 30 km from Olsztyn, visited and described many journalists and literates.

I've been riding Warmia for years. I bought and collected hundreds of souvenirs displayed here. I welcome the interest of media supporting the preservation of cultural heritage, among others through the magazine “Warmia and Mazury”, whose chief was the large author Henryk Panas – a neighbour almost due to the fact that he had his summertime vacation in close Sąpadki. I knew his work.

– This hut is simply a ready-made educational-historical-cultural facility...

- Yeah. For a Warmia that is no longer there, and for future generations. erstwhile confessing to Warmia and knowing it was branded. present we have only about 5,000 souls left.

– In the past, you were a musician, a conference player, a cultural animator. Today, the importance of your Warmian thought has been appreciated and supported by a group of enthusiasts.

My mom said life makes sense erstwhile you're useful. After returning from Germany, I found my sense, I returned to my roots, I awakened Warmia, especially among young people who will form and pass on the past of this land, due to the fact that thanks to me, she learned it.

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