JERZY MARKIEWICZ POLSKA

JERZY MARKIEWICZ                                                           Warszawa 26.08.2014
ul. Kozietulskiegjo 39 m.1
01-571 Warszawa
POLSKA - POLAND


Dear Matti,
                         You were breaking iron coartim during cold war! Inviting COTO was an act of courage and fantasy!
                         Well - I send you the proof of your initiative. It should not be forgotten! Try to think shot to do to remember about Co-to visit in fink-polish cultural relations.
                          My best regards to whole your family.
                                                                                                           Jurek


Dear Jurek

Kari Rahiala took a phone call to me immediately after his last visit to you and your wife.
Thank you for that moment. I was on our countryside house in Lehmäjoki near Vaasa. Happiness in my heart I heard of You and Your wife, Waszawa, Polska, Sopot, Coto-teatergroup, Elzbieta Shwalibog, Ewa Rouba...., Turku-Vaasa-Helsinki tour JUREK and your nice words.

Kari Rahiala gave me 04.09.2014 your letter and "HELSINKI Capital of Helsinki 1950" the present book to Matti Kivinen and Jerzy Markiewicz we had got 8-10.2.1960 after the COTO -visit at Ylioppilasteatteri- student- theater Helsinki.  I wanted to hear your voice and tried to call your number without success.

COTO is in my mind and all memories from my scolarship student time at Sopot May 1959. One mounth we lived with Jukka Karjalainen  ul Pferzego Maja dvunasti pokuje dvadsiensizpienz. This month is the most impressive time my life. COTO was really important to my whole family. They travelled to Vaasa and had performances at the school where my mother was teacher, they lived in my pearents home. My father bought some paintings from Ewa Rouba and Elzbieta Shwalibog and these beloved art-peaces are still in our families collections. Jerzy Markiewicz was the boy taking care of me end of April 1959 in Gdansk. Dzenkuje bardzo i dawidzenija.

Yours

Matti