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246 WŁADYSŁAW A. SERCZYK AND LAWRENCE D. ORTONconducted courses and seminars, read popular lectures, and oftenappeared at various branches of the Ukrainian Social and CulturalSociety in Poland. He generously dispensed advice and invaluablebibliographic assistance among his colleagues and foreign visitingscholars alike.Jan Kozik never avoided difficult or complex subjects. He approachedall historical questions with scholarly passion and a determinationto ascertain the facts and then communicate them to others. Inrecognition of his accomplishments, Poland awarded him the GoldCross of Merit a short time before his death. Historians of the Ukrainein Poland, the Soviet Union, Austria, and the United States knew himwell, and to many he was a dear friend.His disease progressed inexorably, so that in 1978 he was forced towithdraw from active pedagogical and scholarly work. Tired andemaciated, he continued to organize the material he had gathered andto plan further research, hoping that enough strength and time wouldremain to complete his scholarly work with a synthesizing history ofUkrainians in nineteenth-century Galicia. Unfortunately, death cametoo soon.Dr. Kozik's family and friends carry the memory of his personalcourage, perseverance, and willingness to sacrifice comfort for thatprinciple so important to historians: never to be false to one's ownknowledge of the past.Jan Kozik is buried in the family crypt at the church cemetery inNowy Sącz-Zawada.Translated from the Polish by Roman KoropeckyjWładysław A. SerczykJagełlonian UniversityII.Jan Kozik was by nature quiet and unpretentious. The values hecherished most were personal and professional integrity and devotionto family and friends. Jan refused to make the "little compromises"that too many Polish academics did in the 1960s and 1970s for the sakeof material betterment, apparent prestige, and career advancement.He never bent his scholarship to please prevailing doctrinal prerequi-