ABSTRACT
Karl Jaspers wrote: ‘Who I am and where I belong, I first learned from the mirror of history.’ 1 In the introduction to his unwritten diary, Szymanowski expressed his belief that:
there is no being so drab, no man so insignificant, that his history shall have no unquestionable value, and not constitute a valuable “evidence of truth” … as a historical document of the utmost importance. They become a precise instrument of research on the smallest section of historical reality, on social “microstructure” which in the sum of events often decides the fate of the whole. 2
