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From: <jagna8@...>
To: <Kresy-Siberia@...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:02 AM
Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] Norman Davies

Hi Stefan, George, Robert, and anyone involved in the memorial/museum

project.

I took courage in my hands and called Norman Davies - and he is
ON!!! Didn't get our mail, but I explained everything, and he is happy to

join forces. The only thing we must be careful of is not to make him work
for it - rather use his name, and then, when the time comes, use him for
speeches and publicity. He is very much an impractical academic and would
hate any idea of being involved in money raising, etc.

Please, send him another e-mail, maybe preceeding it with smg like: we are

so excited, having heard from Jagna, etc,etc...

And here is another thing, which I find difficult to keep to myself. My

friend asked me for a French version of the Odyssey, for a Paris publisher
for whom she is working. He is very famous, very well connected, very rich -
and at the age of 60 +

is looking for a worthy cause to support. And, believe it or not, his idee

fix is... the first in the Western world museum to the victims of Soviet
oppression!!! When he heard from Ania of our story, he asked for the film
(wanted it NOW) and a meeting over X-mas holidays, so that we can start
plotting - he obviously needs more knowledge on the subject, his approach is
mainly emotional - so the Polish story can be a sort of 'introduction' (his
other link with Poland is his adopted children). Best of all, Norman Davies
agreed to be the patron of the museum as well! At a discussion with
politicians at the Im.War Museum, at the Odyssey premiere, he told a story
of his failed attempt to attract attention of his fellow academics to the
Soviet attrocities. All his efforts were in vain - almost no one came to a
meeting with a few Russian dissidents, former inmates of the Gulag. So, he
too has a 'bee in his bonet' on this subject - but being almost the only
British historian who had enough integrity to point out the injustice of
closing the eyes to the Soviet crimes, he is quite disliked amongst the
British academia - so I am a bit sceptical about George's optimism as to the
'power' of his name. But let's try.

On second thoughts, as he is so old fashioned, maybe it is better to write

him a letter?

Good luck,
Jagna

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