Elity polskie w Londynie po II wojnie światowej. Geneza polskiego Londynu
Polish elites in London after World War II

Summary/Abstract: The Author points out that the massive dimension of Polish emigration in Great Britain was connected to the operations of the Polish Armed Forces in the West and the government of the Republic of Poland on emigration during the World War II. War-related and military nature of this emigration was dependent, inter alia, on the issue of Polish political future and the new order in Europe after the end of the war. This new great wave of Polish political emigration that is righteously currently called “the 2nd great emigration” had a huge impact upon the organisational forms of social and cultural life of the Polish emigrants in Great Britain as well as in other Western countries. The author pays attention to the fact that the Polish elites in London played their historical role of the national depositary of the heritage of an independent Homeland, protecting the most precious values shaping the Polish national identity, for the future free generations. The love for God and the Homeland, freedom, common welfare as the priority in social affairs, honour and pride of Polishness are the most important values.

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