Marek Thee: My Story - A Journey through the 20th Century
PRIO Events19 Jan 2023

Marek Thee: My Story - A Journey through the 20th Century

On January 19, PRIO hosted a discussion based on Marek Thee's autobiography. ​Marek Thee (1918-99) was a fighter with a typewriter. He lived a dramatic life amidst some of the 20th century's most tragic conflicts.

​In his just-published autobiography, written in the 1990s, we meet him as a young leftist student in the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk) before the Nazi takeover; an advocate of the Jewish Zionist cause in Palestine during and after the Second World War; a diplomat, foreign service official, and scholar in the post-war Polish Republic; a Polish representative on the Commission for Supervision and Control of the Geneva agreements on Indochina and Laos; a foreign affairs analyst specializing on Asian affairs in Warsaw of the 1960s; and eventually, for the last 30 years of his life, as a peace researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the Norwegian Human Rights Institute, once again in exile from his native Poland.


Speakers

  • Halina Thee, Marek Thee's daughter and a certified translator
  • Mats Tangestuen, Historian and Academic Director, Oslo Jewish Museum
  • Stein Tønnesson, former student and colleague of Marek Thee and expert on the Indochina Wars

The panel was chaired by Marta Bivand Erdal, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).


For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.prio.org/events/9005

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