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| | Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America |
 | | It was founded by six members of the Krakow Academy (Bronislaw Malinowski, Oskar Halecki, Jan Kucharzewski, Waclaw Lednicki, Wojciech Swietoslawski, and Rafal Taubenschlag) who were fortunate enough to find haven in the United States. |
 | | Their intention was to assure the continuity of Poland's intellectual and cultural development by organizing an American station of PAU, the most prestigious Polish learned institution that had been closed down by the German Nazis. |
 | | After the death of Jan Kucharzewski in 1952, Halecki became President and the jurist Zygmunt Nagorski, Sr. |
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